Re: BUG #1208: Invalid page header

Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> > If you are sure your storage and memory are good, I can think of only
> > two other ideas. One is a gcc bug. You are running Itanium so it is
> > possible. The only other possibility I can think of is that that our
> > ia64 assembler code is wrong. It is:
>
> But that code is gcc-only, and he's not using gcc.

Oh, I see that now:

Compiler used (example: gcc 2.95.2) : Intel C compiler version 8.0

> It's certainly possible that the non-gcc spinlock path is broken on IA64
> though. I dunno that anyone has ever tested that combination. It might
> be interesting for him to run the "test" program in s_lock.c and see if
> it complains.

What locking code is actually being used. I don't see any __ia64__
entries except for gcc. Is it calling some libc library tas()? It is
falling back to semaphores?

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