Snapshot 20040225: make hangs/errors out

[Christopher Faylor]

On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 02:33:52PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>I think I may have figured this out.
>
>It wasn't the eax register being zeroed.  It was actually the test for
>zero returning improper values due to being interrupted by a signal.
>
>I made a fix last night that allowed me to run this for 2500+
>iterations.  Of course, I have managed to do that before without error,
>so that doesn't mean much, I guess.  Backing the change out resulted in
>a 'virtual memory exhausted' error in less than a hundred iterations,
>however.  Odd that I can duplicate it so readily now.  I think my
>computer was previously trying to shield me from the pain of debugging
>this problem.
>
>There is a new snapshot up now with my fix in it.  Please try it.

Sigh.  Literally two minutes after sending this email, the "make -j"
test that I was running at home errored out with a different error.

Back to the drawing board...

cgf

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