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Glibc change exposing bugs

Glibc change exposing bugs

Posted Nov 10, 2010 20:06 UTC (Wed) by HappyCamp (guest, #29230)
Parent article: Glibc change exposing bugs

It maybe also be an issue with a bug in Glibc:

From:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=638477#c74

H.J. Lu 2010-11-10 15:00:40 EST
Comment 74

64bit Fedora 14 is pretty much broken on machines with
SSE4.2. I ran into random crashes with 64bit Fedora 14 on
Intel Core i7. It turns out that 64bit strncasecmp
is broken on machines with SSE 4.2:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=651638


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