Re: gclcvs_2.7.0-43

[Thiemo Seufer <ths@networkno.de>]

Camm Maguire wrote:
[snip]
> > Not so much.  I tend to doubt it's a problem with the box.  It's running
> > a slightly older kernel (.25) and there were some kernel messages
> > regarding this:
> > 
> > saved_ansi_gcl: Forwarding exception at [<880d5920>] (881c34fc)
> > saved_ansi_gcl: Forwarding exception at [<880d5928>] (881c3508)
> > 
> 
> Could you please explain the meaning of these messages?

Those refer to exception handling kernel space addresses. This is
either a hardware or a kernel problem (of unknown proportions yet).

> Last time I'd
> seen similar was on a solaris machine which pushed non-fatal notes to
> the system log everytime a program tried to execute code from its
> .data section, which gcl does all the time.

That's a different effect, and one Linux/MIPS doesn't suffer from.


Thiemo