Re: pkg/50939: Bug in GCC optionization causing i386 net-snmpd, to crash

[David Holland <dholland-pbugs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/50939; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Holland <dholland-pbugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/50939: Bug in GCC optionization causing i386 net-snmpd, to
 crash
Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2017 11:02:49 +0000

 On Fri, Oct 06, 2017 at 04:45:00AM +0000, Gavan Fantom wrote:
  >  Note that the compiler appears to have partially unrolled the loop. But 
  >  this is the end of that block of code. The next block of code happens to 
  >  be the cleanup code sysctl(mem_mib, ...) failing, which logs "sysctl 
  >  vm.vm_meter failed". This appears to be purely coincidental, and the 
  >  real failure here is that execution just falls off the end of this 
  >  half-finished loop unrolling.
 
 That's... creative of it. :-/
 
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 David A. Holland
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