Jeremy Drake wrote:
> On Sun, 4 Sep 2011, Tom Lane wrote:
>
> > What I would suggest is to see whether a more recent x86 version shows
> > the problem or not. If not, let's just write it off as an already-fixed
> > compiler bug.
>
> I have installed the most recent version in the home directory of a
> purpose-made user on that machine.
>
> configure:3252: icc --version >&5
> icc (ICC) 12.0.5 20110719
> Copyright (C) 1985-2011 Intel Corporation. All rights reserved.
>
> I did
> git checkout 6416a82a62db4e66b2edb0fa8fc83a580c3f1931
> to get a revision I knew was right in the broken range for mongoose.
>
> Apparently they deprecated one of my compiler flags: -xN (N is for
> Nocona), seems they renamed it to -xSSE2. Since this is a one-off run, I
> ignored that warning.
>
> The result is no crash in the cube test.
>
> I think tomorrow I'll try to get the 9.0 compiler set up on a clean VM,
> and if the issue duplicates there, I can see about setting up SSH access
> if anyone is still interested in investigating this further.
What would we investigate except a compiler bug?
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