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SubjectRe: 2.3.6 (mmap fails)
On Thu, Jun 10, 1999 at 08:02:12PM -0700, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Jun 1999, Horst von Brand wrote:
>
> > German Jose Gomez Garcia <german@pinon.ccu.uniovi.es> said:
> > > As more people have already reported 2.3.6 fails when loading shared
> > > libraries (when trying to load init), it is unable to mmap them. It works
> > > with 2.3.5-ac1 but fails since 2.3.6pre1 so I suppose it is due to some
> > > kind of "typo" in the new mmap code ;-)
> >
> > This is i586/UP; linux-2.3.6, compiled with egcs-19990608
> > (-fno-strict-aliasing instead of -fno-strength-reduce), binutils-2.9.4.0.1,
> > glibc-2.1.1. emacs (linked dynamically) to write this. No trouble at all.
> >
> > I'd suspect your configuration is somehow broken (Used xconfig, perhaps? Or
> > didn't do "make oldconfig"?), or you are using broken compiler flags (with
> > gcc-2.95 snapshots the -fno-strict-aliasing is _mandatory_)
>
>
> I'm not sure that's the case. Having this problem on stock RH 6, i586 UP
> (also tried SMP for the sake of trying). egcs-19990314,
> binutils-2.9.1.0.23. Also tried the same on my laptop with equal amounts
> of non-success. Same configuration works fine under 2.3.5.
>
> Anybody with more knowledge than me have any ideas? If not, I'll try and
> dig up a gcc 2.7.2 and see if I run into the same problem
>

Dunno if it'll help. I compiled with gcc 2.7.2.3 and have the same
problem.

-bb

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