[developers] [spr31047] CLIM bug on 64-bit machines. Crashing during GC.

[Francis Bond]

G'day,

> It would help if we could show Franz that the bug does not exhibit
> itself solely on our machines in Cambridge. Could I ask anyone else who
> has experienced this bug to let Ann and I know (i) on what hardware and
> (ii) under what specific OS? We'll pass the information on to Franz, and
> I'll keep this list informed on any progress they make.

(1) AMD64s
cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor       : 0
vendor_id       : AuthenticAMD
cpu family      : 15
model           : 5
model name      : AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 850
stepping        : 10
cpu MHz         : 2405.867
cache size      : 1024 KB
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 1
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge
mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 syscall nx mmxext lm
3dnowext 3dnow
bogomips        : 4797.23
TLB size        : 1088 4K pages
clflush size    : 64
address sizes   : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management: ts fid vid ttp

(ii) Redhat Enterprise
Linux zeus 2.4.21-4.ELsmp #1 SMP Fri Oct 3 17:32:58 EDT 2003 x86_64
x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux


> Franz are also aware of the problems CLIM has with Unicode. Again, I'll
> keep this list informed of any progress they might make on this bug...
> (none yet).

Thanks for keeping the pressure up.

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Francis Bond  <www.kecl.ntt.co.jp/icl/mtg/members/bond/>
NTT Communication Science Laboratories | Machine Translation Research Group