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Re: [Various] libc/1161: Unable to get nscd to work on alpha
- To: kukuk@suse.de (Thorsten Kukuk)
- Subject: Re: [Various] libc/1161: Unable to get nscd to work on alpha
- From: hjl@lucon.org (H.J. Lu)
- Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1999 17:03:10 -0700 (PDT)
- Cc: aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de (Andreas Jaeger),libc-alpha@sourceware.cygnus.com (libc-alpha Mailinglist),sba@srl.caltech.edu
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> Hello,
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> On Sat, Jun 12, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
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> > Is there anything we can do to fix nscd on alpha? I fear this is a
> > compiler bug:-(. Richard, can you help?
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> It's an older bug which I have already send twice to the egcs people
> without getting an reaction.
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> egcs miscompiles the following lines from nscd/cache.c:
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> /* Put the new entry in the first position. */
> do
> newp->next = table->array[hash];
> while (! compare_and_swap ((volatile long int *) &table->array[hash],
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I think egcs people believe the above code is buggy. There is a
huge thread similar to this on the egcs mailing list.
H.J.