Re: memtestplus

["John D. Baker" <jdbaker%mylinuxisp.com@localhost>]

On Mon, 5 Jun 2017, Greg Troxel wrote:

> > My experience has been that "sysutils/memtestplus" (MemTest86+ v5.01)
> > only works if built with GCC 4.5.3 from netbsd-6/i386.

[snip]

> Do people think that it works with gcc from netbsd-5/amd64?  We could

I didn't mention netbsd-5 as it is now EOL, but I seem to recall the
same problem as with netbsd-6.  Built with i386 toolchain it worked,
built with amd64 toolchain, it would either hang the machine or immediately
reboot.

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