Re: [gentoo-user] Fire the fox.

[Beau Henderson]

On 09/21/10 12:41, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 3:23 PM, Beau Henderson <beau@××××××××××××.com
> <mailto:beau@××××××××××××.com>> wrote:
>
>     I had this same problem and decided I had bad RAM. Before I could order any, I rebuild my system
>     and it happens that I did so with an image that had GCC 4.3* rather than 4.4. Funny enough,
>     firefox worked just fine. I did some searching and apparently nspr has issues with a certain
>     function enabled in -O2 @ gcc 4.4.
>
>      From the following: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=487844
>
>     Apparently if you rebuild nspr @ gcc 4.4 with -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing
>
>     I haven't confirmed this, as I haven't had time to jump back to 4.4 but if someone can confirm
>     this fixes the issue, I'd certainly be greatful!
>
>
> I'm still at 4.3.4, and having these problems.  I wouldn't be holding my breath for a silver bullet.
>   I'm writing this on chormium, having just given up on Opera for being slow as FF.  Sigh.
>
>
> --
> Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
>

Are you compiling nspr with -O3 by any chance ? The flag that is responsible was apparently moved 
from -O3 in gcc 4.3* to -O2 in 4.4*.

Are you getting the seg fault when you strace firefox ?

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Beau Henderson