Re: Dropping sparc32 for lenny
BERTRAND Joël wrote:
> Maybe compiler version was critical. But since 2.4.21, I have tried all
> release between gcc-3.3 and gcc-4.1 without any success (and on several
> SS20 SMP with SM71 or RT626). X tough a lot of time to be initialized
> and randomly crashed when fb was leo or SX. CG6 was more stable.
In my case I think I've used whatever gcc version was in the last update of
Woody, and whatever came with Sarge up to something like gcc 3.3.5. The machines
I was using were all cgsix. I suspect that sun4d is particularly good at
demonstrating problems that might be lurking on other sparc32 machines.
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Mark Morgan Lloyd
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