[arch-dev-public] SBCL, kernel, and GCC 4.30

[Dan McGee]

On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 1:50 PM, K. Piche <kpiche at rogers.com> wrote:
> While trying to build the latest SBCL I came across an interesting
>  problem.  The build halts midway and clocks the CPU at 100%.
>
>  A quick search shows that GCC 4.3.0 changed the ABI slightly to conform
>  to the formal standard as opposed to the defacto standard.  GCC stopped
>  clearing or setting the DF before function calls which is out of step
>  with the kernel which expects it set/cleared.  Apparently this mostly
>  affects signal handlers called by the kernel.  This causes problems with
>  the signal functions in our glibc because it was compiled with GCC
>  4.3.0.  I installed glibc 2.7-7 and sbcl builds fine now.
>
>  A better explanation of the problem can be found at
>  http://lwn.net/Articles/272048/ and at the very bottem there is a link
>  to a Debian bug.
>
>  The problem is fixed in kernel 2.6.25 and (sigh) there is a patch
>  available for 2.6.24.

This was fixed in 2.6.24.4 as well, so we shouldn't be seeing issues...
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.24.y.git;a=commit;h=cc7571b226c93b032164ebb3ff3b365651c4652f

-Dan