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From: jeffe@omews63.intel.com (Jeff Eaton)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: A solution for Server crashes for X11R4 on Sun386
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Date: 20 Mar 90 03:55:23 GMT
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Reply-To: jeffe@omews63.intel.com (Jeff Eaton)
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I haven't seen anything on this here, so I thought I would mention it
and perhaps spare somebody some grief.

My environment is a Sun386, running SunOS 4.0.2.

I've known for some time that certain features of X will make the server
toss its cookies, in particular various uses of wide lines, but I'd never
had the time to sit down and try to define the problem well.  I made the
time this weekend.

I also made an attempt to find the problem in the server, and I made the
astounding discovery that all the problems disappeared when the server
was compiled -g.

That's right, the sun compiler is crap.  I should of remembered.

In short, if you want to do X on a Sun386, use GCC (I used 1.37.1) to
build the server.  Or, you can not use -O.  Either will build a server
that I haven't been able to crash yet.

While this is not a bug report for X, it would be nice if the X people
could include the Sun386 in the list of recomendations for using GCC
(along with 68k, etc.)

Jeff Eaton
Intel Corporation
jeffe@mipon2.intel.com