On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 07:52:15PM -0400, TWEDE,ROGER (HP-Boise,ex1) wrote: > > > The following code reveals a bug in the MIPS Gnu C Libraries available via > ftp on oss.sgi.com (ftp.linux.sgi.com). > > The bug is posix thread related and occurs when using the libc and > libpthread versions available at: > /pub/linux/mips/redhat/7.1/RPMS/mipsel/glibc* > > The bug also appears to exist in: > /pub/linux/mips/mipsel-linux/RedHat-7.0/RPMS/mipsel/glibc* > > The bug does not exist in earlier versions of the pthread library, or on the > non-MIPS (non-SGI) distributions. (ie. RedHat 7.0 for ix86 does not exhibit > a failure with this code, but RedHat 7.0/7.1 on mips does) > > Upon failure the following code sequence will core dump (SEGV) instead of > exiting normally. > > On RedHat 7.1/mips: # gcc pthread.c -o mips -lpthread -Wall pthread.c: In function `StartFunction': pthread.c:64: warning: unsigned int format, pointer arg (arg 3) pthread.c:69: warning: unsigned int format, pointer arg (arg 3) # ./mips pid=21905 Init mutex pid=21905 About to create thread: mythread pid=21905 about to cond_wait for mythread init 1. pid=21907 thread mutex locked at x7fff79c8 pid=21907 thread cond signal sent, unlocking at 0x7fff79c8 pid=21907 thread unlocked pid=21905 back from cond_wait for mythread init 1. result=0 pid=21907 yielded and back again # rpm -q glibc glibc-2.2.4-11.2 H.J.
