[3467] in Athena Bugs
Re: [Chuck Pickelhaupt: zip crashed my WS]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (probe@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Sat Oct 21 23:49:53 1989
From: probe@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 89 23:49:09 -0400
To: cepickel@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, wdc@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, dkk@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: quality@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: David Krikorian's message of Fri, 20 Oct 89 13:36:07 -0400,
Reply-To: Richard Basch <probe@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
The bug that you have run into with "zip" is a bug with the X server.
Technically, if the X server crashes, as it has, it is a bug with the
server, as you probably already know.
This bug is caused by bad code generation (by gcc 1.34) of the routine
miGetArcPts(), more specifically, one of the rounding routines is
lacking one assembly instruction. This problem will be fixed in the
January release, by compiling the X server with the next version of gcc.
-Richard Basch
(Athena Systems Development/Release Engineering)
