[omniORB] Segfaults on exceptions. RedHat 7.2

[Brenneis, Steve]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Duncan Grisby [mailto:dgrisby@uk.research.att.com]
> Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2001 12:06 PM
> To: Maged Mokhtar
> Cc: 'omniorb-list@uk.research.att.com'
> Subject: Re: [omniORB] Segfaults on exceptions. RedHat 7.2 
> 
> 
> On Thursday 6 December, Maged Mokhtar wrote:
> 
> > on my RedHat 7.2, gcc -v gives :
> > gcc version 2.96 20000731 ( Red Hat Linux 7.1 2.96-98 )
> > 
> > if i understand you correctly, compiling the OmniORB libs on redhat
> > version 7.1 ( with gcc that comes with it ) is no good.  i'll give
> > it a shot with 7.2, but am not very optimistic as the gcc version is
> > very close to 7.1
> 
> omniORB should actually work fine with the RedHat 7.2 compiler, as
> long as you compile omniORB from source. Our binaries, compiled on
> RedHat 6.2 will definitely not work.
> 

Actually, this is not the case, Duncan. I have been chasing a mysterious
problem with omni_threads and the Red Hat 7 compilers for about a month now.
I haven't put anything on the mailing list because I don't have anything
other than the fact that the problem disappears when I revert to the 2.95.3
distribution from GNU. The exact problem seems to be that a thread
identifier is getting lost between the omni_thread start method and the
pthread_create function. I haven't found it worth chasing since I had so
many other problems with the 2.96 compiler that i just backed it out.

> Cheers,
> 
> Duncan.
> 
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