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From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: GNU C crashs on PC; what about cross-compiling from RS/6000?
Date: 11 Feb 1994 14:01:41 GMT
Organization: Montana State University - Bozeman MT
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In article <CKxusJ.Ktn@rex.uokhsc.edu>,
Benjamin Z. Goldsteen <benjamin-goldsteen@uokhsc.edu> wrote:
>recompile the kernel on my 386SX-20/5MB RAM/81MB IDE, GNU C tends to
^^^
>crash with random signals numbers (BUS error and SEGV are most popular
>but I also got an ALRM) for no apparent reason.
This is a known problem with the FreeBSD 1.0e release which has been
fixed (now that's an understatement) in the upcoming 1.1 release.
If you can hold on a little while longer until the release you will
see much better performance and usability on smaller memory machines.
> This is with FreeBSD 1.0e (downloaded from freebsd.cdrom.com this
> weekend).
Nate
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