Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 11 Mar 2003 17:29:46 +0100 (MET) | From | Szakacsits Szabolcs <> | Subject | Re: 2.5.63 accesses below %esp (was: Re: ntfs OOPS (2.5.63)) |
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On 11 Mar 2003, Alan Cox wrote: > On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 07:22, Szakacsits Szabolcs wrote: > > The question is if we want to support the buggy 2.9[56] compilers or > > not. I checked Red Hat 7.3 and the latest errata gcc fixes this issue, > > the generated code is ok. But your complier didn't and probably many > > more out there don't. > > I don't think gcc 2.96 had that problem.
Randy's compliler is 2.96 and it forgot to do a 'sub $0xc,%esp'. See yourself all the data at http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=432
Red Hat had this bug also for 1-1.5 year (there is a bugzilla entry submitted by a Parasoft employee, the bug also screw[s|ed] user space apps, e.g. by signal handling).
Szaka
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