From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <4064589E.9020304@swtch.com> From: Russ Cox User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031221 Thunderbird/0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] ports update References: <200403261552.i2QFqlX27346@plg2.math.uwaterloo.ca> In-Reply-To: <200403261552.i2QFqlX27346@plg2.math.uwaterloo.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 11:21:50 -0500 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 43fa8bd8-eacd-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 Richard C Bilson wrote: >>From: Russ Cox >> >>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