[Fwd: Re: cpp0 error and strangeness with gcc 3.1.0] - More info

[Shawn Starr <spstarr@xxxxxxxx>]

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To:	Shawn Starr <spstarr@xxxxxxxx>
Subject:	Re: cpp0 error and strangeness with gcc 3.1.0
From:	Neil Booth <neil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:	Mon, 17 Jun 2002 07:12:43 +0100
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Shawn Starr wrote:-

> I've heard from some people the XFS Filesystem broke gcc 3.1 :(

Like Zack said, this is almost certainly an XFS bug, in that the
filesystem is not zeroing out the excess bytes, for getting the
mapping up to a page boundary, when using mmap().

CPP relies on this behaviour.  Please confirm this with the XFS
people.

Neil.

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