Subject: Re: 1.6.2 on Shark: X server crashes
To: Ignatios Souvatzis <is@netbsd.org>
From: Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha@arm.com>
List: port-arm
Date: 03/30/2004 10:10:31
On Tue, 2004-03-30 at 05:42, Ignatios Souvatzis wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 11:00:48AM +0100, Richard Earnshaw wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > I found that XF86_SVGA tends to crash "all the time"... e.g., I have
> > > a PDF file that, when viewed via xpdf, crashes it.
> > > 
> > > /var/log/xdm reports 
> > > 
> > > Caught signal 11.
> > > 
> > 
> > This sounds suspiciously like this one:
> > 
> > http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-acorn32/2003/08/26/0000.html
> 
> I've followed the recipe, and the new XF86_SVGA is stable enough to
> show me cited PDF and a links -g at the same time.
> 
> Maybe this patch should be pulled up unto the 1.6 branch? (Is it from
> gcc3.*?)

It's for the version of gcc that was in use on the 1.6 branch.  I'd
forgotten that the branch hadn't switched to gcc-3.3 and so I haven't
put in a releng request.  Feel free to do so.

It (should be) fixed already in gcc-3.3

R.