On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 02:58:54PM +0200, Jaromir Dolecek wrote:
> Can people who experience this problem confirm that the same problem
> happens (with -pipe in COPTS) when the kernel is compiled with
> option PIPE_SOCKETPAIR?

Yes it does. (still happens now - source of Nov 6 2002 17:50, i386)
(To test, just compile GENERIC with COPTS+=-pipe in /etc/mk.conf)

Cheers,

Patrick


> Patrick Welche wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 07:56:37AM +0200, Christian Biere wrote:
> > > Patrick Welche <prlw1@newn.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> > ...
> > > > `pcn_init':/usr/src/sys/dev/pci/if_pcn.c:1767: internal
> > > > error--unrecognizable insn:(insn 644 643 646 (set (reg:SI 170)
> > > 
> > > I'm pretty sure it's the compiler's fault. I'm using gcc 3.2 and it hangs
> > > at the same line of code. My system isn't overclocked. It's a plain AMD
> > > Duron 900 Mhz with 256 DDR-RAM. AFAIK I haven't had any problems with
> > > memory corruption yet. This should not be reproducible if it were a
> > > problem of memory corruption. The revision of if_pcn.c is 1.14 from
> > > 2002-10-02. This is what gcc 3.2 tells me:
> > ... 
> > > /sys/dev/pci/if_pcn.c:1767: unrecognizable insn:
> > ... 
> > > But there's a trick. I have used "export DEFCOPTS=-pipe". Normally,
> > > DEFCOPTS would be -O2 and if I use this the compiler won't fail. Note
> > > that "-O2 -pipe" works as well. I would have expected optimizing might
> > > lead to problems in rare cases but here *not* optimizing triggers the bug.
> > > I haven't submitted a bug report yet or even looked whether it's a known
> > > bug.
> > 
> > Following Julio's advice, I removed -pipe and it worked. I had
> > 	COPTS+=-pipe
> > in my /etc/mk.conf. I didn't try your "-O2 -pipe", maybe I should..
> > (And yes I agree it isn't a hardware problem...)