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Re: glibc: causes segfault in Xorg



Le 04/05/2011 07:42, Steve M. Robbins a écrit :
> On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 12:10:48AM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> 
>> Sounds like http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12518
>> which is fixed (sort of) by commit 0354e355 (2011-04-01).
> 
> Oh my word.  So glibc 2.13 breaks random binaries that happened to
> incorrectly use memcpy() instead of memmove()?  What's wrong with the
> glibc developers (and Ulrich Drepper in particular)?
> 
> I'm with Linus on this: let's just revert to the old behaviour.  A
> tiny amount of clock cycles saved isn't worth the instability.
> 
> Thanks,
> -Steve
> 
> P.S.  I tried rebuilding glibc myself locally, but gcc also segfaults
> in the process :-(
> 

Are you sure it is something related? Which gcc version are you using?
Do you have a backtrace point to the same issue?

I am using this libc version for two months (on a CPU having ssse3
instruction set), it is also used by other distributions, so I find
strange it breaks something so common than gcc. For XOrg it can be due
to the difference in configuration, that's why the problem stayed unnoticed.

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