Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: x86_64 optimization patches for glibc.

[Simon Strandman <simon.strandman@telia.com>]

Jan Jitse Venselaar skrev:

>As the reporter of the problem with nano, I'd like to make 1 correction to 
>this report: Recompiling nano and its depencies did not fix the crashes. It 
>just fixed the eating of the file. 
>I did not recompile my entire system, but a crash of such a small and basic 
>app as nano made me not want to do this outside of a chroot, which I 
>currently do not have the means for. 
>I reread my report, and I saw it was not clear that recompiling nano and its 
>dependencies did not fix the crashes. Sorry for the confusion.
>
>Jan Jitse
>  
>
I have a theory about the nano problem. Could you please try with nano 
1.2.5 instead and see if it still craches?

I believe this might be a bug in nano 1.3.X and not a problem with the 
amd64 strings patch, it just exposes the bug. Nano 1.3.8 running under 
Suse 9.3 suffers from exactly the same problem (craching when 
searching). But if I downgrade it to 1.2.5 it's completly stable. And 
1.3.X is actually the unstable development branch of nano while 1.2.X is 
the stable so it could very well contain bugs.

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Simon Strandman <simon.strandman@telia.com>

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