Re: [HACKERS] Core dump in regression tests.

I think I have the FIX.   HOLD ON.


> Thomas G. Lockhart <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu>
> > Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
> > > Can we try a simple -O rather than just -O2 and -O0.  Could this be
> > > some type of optimizer bug in gcc2/Solaris?
> > > Everything is pointing to indexing.c, from both the initdb failure and
> > > the create function failure.  But I can't see anything wrong in there,
> > > and other platforms seem to be OK.
>
> Compiled with -O the results are the same as with -O2. (-O is the same as -O1)
>
> According to the gcc man -O0 turns off all optimisation.
>
> >
> > Uh, no, Linux/i686 is showing trouble too, but not in the initdb stage.
> > The Sparc platforms will be more sensitive to byte alignment problems,
> > especially within C structures, so this may be illustrating a
> > cross-platform problem more clearly.
> >
> > There is a repeatable indexing and (perhaps) caching problem I see in
> > the regression tests. Annoyingly, the problems get slightly worse at the
> > moment when compiling with -O0.
> >
> > There is a fundamental problem lurking somewhere, and there may not be
> > much point in going beta unless you think that more testers will help to
> > track down the problem.
> >
>
> It's unfortunate that the person who has the best chance of tracking
> down the bug(s), Bruce, is not seeing any of the problems :-(
>
> I'm afraid I'm not going to be much help this week as the shift
> I'm on leaves me little time to play with the workstation at home.
>
> I'll be able to do test compiles but not much debugging.
>
> Keith.
>
>


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