From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@googlemail.com>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] ccache causing problems
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 08:51:51 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100429085151.4ccf6333@snowmobile> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4BD939CC.1000109@gentoo.org>
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On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 09:48:28 +0200
"Paweł Hajdan, Jr." <phajdan.jr@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > ccache itself hasn't been the problem, but unreliable hardware has.
> > Provably by removing the corrupt cache files, then running with
> > ccache a few more times, and having everything work perfectly.
>
> I see. However, I'd consider not detecting the corruption a bug.
gcc also doesn't detect most hardware faults. Nor does glibc. Nor does
the kernel. There's very little software out there that's designed to
run correctly even on broken hardware, and the little that there is is
mostly keeping planes flying.
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Ciaran McCreesh
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-04-29 7:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-04-29 7:06 [gentoo-dev] ccache causing problems "Paweł Hajdan, Jr."
2010-04-29 7:41 ` Robin H. Johnson
2010-04-29 7:48 ` "Paweł Hajdan, Jr."
2010-04-29 7:51 ` Ciaran McCreesh [this message]
2010-04-29 8:32 ` Robin H. Johnson
2010-04-29 22:16 ` Rémi Cardona
2010-04-29 22:34 ` Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto
2010-04-29 23:02 ` Gilles Dartiguelongue
2010-04-30 16:34 ` Robin H. Johnson
2010-05-03 8:49 ` [gentoo-dev] " Peter Hjalmarsson
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