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From: Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] ports update
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 11:21:50 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4064589E.9020304@swtch.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200403261552.i2QFqlX27346@plg2.math.uwaterloo.ca>

Richard C Bilson wrote:

>>From: Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com>
>>
>>I suspect it's a stack overflow problem, I just don't know
>>where to look or how.  I'm not overflowing the stack on other
>>systems, and I've got 32kB stacks in the program in question,
>>which should be way more than enough.  On Linux I can use
>>valgrind to check such things (well, sort of).
>>    
>>
>
>For what it's worth, I haven't yet been able to get the ports working
>reliably under either Linux/x86 or SunOS.  Strangely, they're quite
>sturdy when run over VNC, but not when I use my normal (Xfree86) X
>server.
>  
>

I'm running quite reliably under Linux/x86 for all day-to-day work,
and I was using FreeBSD for a good while too.  There was an important
bug fix to libregexp a couple weeks ago, but since then they've been solid.

Russ



  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-03-26 16:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-03-26 15:52 Richard C Bilson
2004-03-26 16:07 ` Axel Belinfante
2004-03-26 16:21 ` Russ Cox [this message]
2004-03-26 16:26 ` Sam
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-03-26 19:05 Richard C Bilson
2004-03-26 19:16 ` Russ Cox
2004-03-26 19:27   ` Axel Belinfante
2004-03-27 13:10     ` boyd, rounin
2004-03-27 13:09 ` boyd, rounin
2004-03-26  2:21 Russ Cox
2004-03-26  9:54 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2004-03-26 12:32   ` Fco.J.Ballesteros
2004-03-26 15:41     ` Russ Cox
2004-03-26 15:48       ` Fco.J.Ballesteros
2004-03-26 17:39         ` Russ Cox
2004-03-27 13:07         ` boyd, rounin
2004-03-26 15:42   ` Russ Cox
2004-03-26 18:24     ` Scott Schwartz

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