On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 06:47:45PM +0200, Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote: > Le lundi 26 octobre 2009 10:10:45 Aurelien Jarno, vous avez écrit : > > > I'm running on a single core SMT (P4/HT namely), so instruction cycle > > > timing might be very different from what an UP or non-SMT SMP gets :( In > > > any case, the fact that is only occurs with libc6-i686 hints at incorrect > > > use of atomic ops, I guess... > > > > Problems related to atomic ops often comes, or at least are triggered > > by, gcc changes. I have rebuilt eglibc 2.10.1-2 using gcc-4.3 instead of > > gcc-4.4. The packages are available on http://temp.aurel32.net/eglibc/ > > Could you please tell me if you have the same problem with them? > > Good catch. I could not reproduce the problem with 2.10.1-2+gcc4.3, neither > with the test case nor with VLC media player. >
Thanks for the test. It's the solution I'll use if I can't find the real problem. Looking at the recent upstream commits, the problem may be fixed by this commit: http://repo.or.cz/w/glibc.git?a=commit;h=e73e694e38b7b222eec3ec5897eb507d88bb8928 As I can't reproduce the problem here, if I build packages with this patch, would it be possible for you to test them? -- Aurelien Jarno GPG: 1024D/F1BCDB73 aurel...@aurel32.net http://www.aurel32.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org