Re: red hat/mysql fiasco - Mailing list pgsql-general

From teg@redhat.com (Trond Eivind Glomsrød)
Subject Re: red hat/mysql fiasco
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In response to Re: red hat/mysql fiasco  (Mike Castle <dalgoda@ix.netcom.com>)
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Mike Castle <dalgoda@ix.netcom.com> writes:

> On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 11:46:33AM +0200, Alessio Bragadini wrote:
> > "The MySQL packages shipped with Red Hat Linux 7 contained buggy
> > assembler code. When compiled with optimization
> >    enabled, this code caused the database server to return bad results.
 >
> > P.S. RedHat chose to ship a beta version of MySql with RH7, so I believe
> > that's more their fault than MySql people - but indeed there must be
> > also a serious flaw in source code.
>
>
> I would tend to think this would be a bug in gcc.

No. That was our first thought as well. However, during the search for
the bug we found that the bug was in their assembly code(aliasing). The patch
was submitted by us. We also found a bug in their SPARC assembly,
where they used a reserved register.

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Trond Eivind Glomsrød
Red Hat, Inc.

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