On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 07:23:50PM -0500, Bradley W. Allen wrote: > The last time I had Signal 11 problems, I was incorrectly told it was > a hardware problem. Since I had a Dell, I knew they were wrong. It > took me a year and a half, and finally it was admitted by the GCC > programmers that Sig11 was in fact a compiler bug in GCC, and it was > not my hardware. This same bug has been famous since then, since > people are still trying to find ways to fix and get around it. It was > not my fault that people did not believe me, and it took a lot of work > to get people to realize it was not me. I do not accept stock answers > about Sig11 being a hardware problem with me. In my strong > experience, Sig11 is MOST LIKELY A SOFTWARE BUG. There's no need to launch a pre-emptive strike on this issue. In my 5 years of experience maintaining XFree86 packages for Debian, most segfaults that affect its executables are due to coding errors. -- G. Branden Robinson | Debian GNU/Linux | "Bother," said Pooh, as he was branden@debian.org | assimilated by the Borg. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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