Re: -O2 in gcc 2.96 buggy?

["H . J . Lu" <hjl@lucon.org>]

On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 01:25:57PM +0100, Torsten Weber wrote:
> On a RedHat 7.1 installation I compiled gawk (3.1.0),  but gawk crashed
> (gawk couldn't run glibc-2.2.4/scripts/firstversions.awk, it resulted
> in:
>        > (FILENAME=- FNR=1) fatal error: internal error
>        > Aborted (core dumped)
> )
> The gawk problem disappeares if I compile without optimizing with -O2
> (i.e. optimizing with -O works).
> 
> gcc version is 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.1 2.96-99.1)
> 
> Is this problem already known, or where is my mistake?

I know a kernel bug caused this problem.



H.J.