On Sat, 4 May 2002, David O'Brien wrote: > On Sat, May 04, 2002 at 09:26:33PM +0100, Brian Somers wrote: > > Try disabling -pipe when building the compiler. This seems to make > > things more stable here (CFLAGS=-O in /etc/make.conf) - as if > > building the kernel with -pipe sometimes produces a kernel that > > subsequently murders the compiler with sig11/sig4 all the time. > > If so, then we have a bug in our pipe ('|', not 'gcc -pipe') > implimentation.
I have seen signs of a generic pipe bug in vi: vi's i/o buffer for pipes is sometimes invalid (kern/sys_pipe.c:pipe_build_write_buffer() gets an error faulting it in). This doesn't usually cause signals; it just confuses vi. Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message