trouble with 1.15.2

Wed Nov 25 18:40:41 UTC 2009

On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 05:56:02PM +0100, walter harms wrote:

>hi list,
>i am still trying to find the bug but i noted something more disturbing.
>With the move from 1.14.4 to 1.15.0 i found that my startup started sending a bunch
>of 0 bytes to the terminal. This is gone unnoticed so far as that we do not see the hexvalues
>of the startupmessages. (i used them to see the bug above).
>It would be nice if someone would check that so i can get a second opinion.
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>I strongly suspect ash.c for the above behavior as that replacing the 1.15.2 ash.c with
>1.15.1 restores the old bug. Please note that system look perfectly normal when you only
>look at the ascii dump, i experience a crash only with 1.15.2.
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>I have still no idea if the bug is inside the toolchain or busybox.

-) So what arch, binutils, gcc (eventual EXTRA_CFLAGS), patches are you using?
-) build with -O0, verify if the bug is still there

>re,
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>example output: 1.15.0 with block of 0
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>0015f80: 653a 2035 2028 636c 6f63 6b20 6e6f 7420  e: 5 (clock not
>0015f90: 7379 6e63 6872 6f6e 697a 6564 290d 0a00  synchronized)...
>0015fa0: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000  ................
>......
>0017e20: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000  ................
>0017e30: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 2a2a 2a2a  ............****
>0017e40: 2a2a 2a2a 2a2a 2a2a 2a2a 2a2a 2a2a 2a2a  ****************
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