How it was found [LWN.net]

How it was found

Posted Mar 10, 2008 20:09 UTC (Mon) by liamh (subscriber, #4872)
Parent article: GCC 4.3.0 exposes a kernel bug

Just a clarification on the discovery history:
"found when building Steel Bank Common Lisp (SBCL) using the new compiler" is not exactly
correct.  The problem was found when building SBCL, which doesn't use gcc, but which does use
libc6.  There was a change in Debian unstable that introduced a new version of libc6 2.7-8 ->
2.7-9.  That new version was compiled with gcc 4.3.0.  When SBCL builds with this version of
libc6, it either hangs or spins the CPU at 100%.
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=...

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How it was found

Posted Mar 13, 2008 18:41 UTC (Thu) by kmccarty (subscriber, #12085) [Link]

Also, for the interested, here is the original entry in the Debian BTS:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=469058