Re: Floating stacks ?

Juergen Fuhrmann <[email protected]> writes:

> Hi,
>
>
> I am posting to this list  as I suppose that people interested in IA64
> are not that far from being  interested in OpenMP stuff, and I did not
> find any other suse list somehow specific on this issue.
>
> The issue ist the following: we try to run the intel compiler 6.0 on a
> Pentium4  with  Suse7.3 and  2.4.18  kernel.  When  switching over  to
> OpenMP, we get segfaults in the  startup phase. The intel guys told us
> that we would need a glibc with FLOATING_STACKS enabled, and gave us a
> version. However just replacing the lib leads to a complete crash of
> all other tools.
>
> So I  suppose the issue is  more complex.  Do you  have any suggestion
> (at least the  RTFM thing -- where  I can find out more)  ?  Could the
> problem be resolved by compiling glibc by ourselves ?

You shouldn't mix a glibc compiled for Red Hat with one for SuSE.

SuSE 8.0 comes in unsorted with a glibc that uses floating stacks and
that one should work.

A glibc compiled from sources for i686-linux-gnu with the configure
flag --enable-kernel=2.4.0 gives you a glibc with floatings stacks.

Andreas
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