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- I have received bug reports about dump telling that dump receives
- unexpected signals when dump directories (in pass III). I have tried to
- reproduce the problem and it appears that this may be caused by an optimization
- problem in some versions of gcc. Dump works fine when compiled with
- optimization by gcc 2.6.2 but it fails when compiled by gcc 2.6.3:
- - either it gets an unexpected signal (SIGFPE),
- - or it issues warnings ``Warning: dumpdirino called with file type
- 040000'' and does not dump directories.
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- I am not courageous enough to study the assembly code generated by
- gcc (yet :-), so I have modified the Makefiles to compile dump without
- optimizations. I have also fixed a few minor bugs and removed some printf's
- that I had added during my tests. I will study the assembly code generated
- by gcc soon and fix the problem.
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- The fixed version (numbered 0.2a) is now available on tsx-11.mit.edu
- in the directory /pub/linux/packages/ext2fs. Please get it if you are using
- dump and restore.
-
- Thanks to Daniel Veillard <Daniel.Veillard@imag.fr>, Bob Snyder
- <rsnyder@janet.advsys.com>, and Florian La Roche <rzsfl@rz.uni-sb.de> for
- their reports and their help!
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- --
- Remy Card
- Remy.Card@freenix.fr
-