Re: how to freeze 2.1.125, finally

kernel@whitestar.soark.net
Sun, 11 Oct 1998 03:49:40 -0400

On Sat, Oct 10, 1998 at 08:50:14PM +0200, Bernhard Rosenkraenzer wrote:
> On Sat, 10 Oct 1998, Ragnar Hojland wrote:
>
> > Well, some days ago I posted about a frozen 2.1.124. So I tried everything
> > back and forth trying to reproduce the lockup. Ended up playing with crashme
> > If you compile crashme with egcs 1.1b, with -O6 -g, and run it (obviously
> > as non root), with +2000.0 7191 2 , it locks up. Why the -O6 makes a
> > difference, I have no idea.. anyone mind illustrating me?
>
> egcs has a few bugs that can lead to miscompilation with optimizations > -O2
>
> Use -O2 rather than -O6; shouldn't be much slower, but more reliable.

Uhm, thats not what he was asking/stating..

Its that for some reason that program compiled in that way with those
settings can bring down a Linux system as a USER..

crashme was actually intended to find such things, now the question is,
what is it doing to cause this?

Zephaniah E, Hull.
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