Xavier> We've observed similar hard-to-reproduce segmentation faults
Xavier> on a Linux RedHat 7.2 machine.  After some tracking, it turns
Xavier> out to be a bug in gcc version 2.96 20000731 -- the
Xavier> "unofficial" gcc that RH 7.2 uses; I don't know which version
Xavier> of gcc your Mandrake has.

Xavier> For those who are interested, the bug is that gcc forgets to
Xavier> allocate a stack frame in a leaf function, thus accessing the
Xavier> stack "below" the stack pointer.  If there are no interrupts
Xavier> during the leaf function, it still works; but any interrupt
Xavier> wipes the memory area just below the stack pointer, and the
Xavier> function crashes...

Xavier> We're trying to figure out a workaround, and will release
Xavier> updated RPMs and SRPMs.

<unlurk>
Is it worth polluting the source for the sake of an out-and-out vendor
bug?  I'd say no.
</unlurk>

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