Re: is this a bug?

[Ron Flory]

"Dr. Kelsey Hudson" wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, Thodoris Pitikaris wrote:
> 
> > As you will see in the attached file (it's a dmesg from the boot)
> > I have an 1Ghz athlon cpu with a VIA KT133 on a gigabyte GA-7ZX
> > motherboard with 100mhz SDRAM.When I compiled the kernel with
> > cputype=Athlon I continiusly experienced this crash.When I compiled with
> > cputype=i686 everything went smooth (OS is Redhat 7.1)
> 
> It's a bug in that screwed up compiler redhat shipped with 7.1. AFAIK, the
> only difference between an athlon-specific kernel and an i686-specific
> kernel are the options in the compiler command line when compiling the
> kernel.

 RH has posted updates to many of the gcc-xxx tools, have you installed
the updated compilers and libraries ?

ron