Re: [squid-users] simple questions

Squid does not exhibit problems with any 2.96 GCC from Red Hat I have
used in any environment in which I have used it.

I use gcc-2.96-95 on RH 7.1 regularly for all of my testing, and I
haven't found any problems yet. I have had occasional suspicions about
the compiler (because of the stink people raised about it), but have
always found the problem to lie elsewhere--and I wasted quite a lot of
time that could have been spent chasing the actual problem. There is an
old piece of programming advice something to the effect of "It's not the
compiler that is wrong." I now take this advice seriously.

Just my .02.

Simon White wrote:
> 25-Mar-02 at 16:58, Fran Boudraux (squidlist@hotmail.com) wrote :
>
>>1. Can I use 2.4.6 stable on rad hat 7.2 (tarball)?
>>2. I plan to upgrade from 2.4.1 to 2.4.6 - can I copy squid.conf from 2.4.1
>>installation and then put it to the usage in 2.4.6? What is tha best way to
>>upgrade to 2.4.6?
>>
>
> I am have successfully compiled 2.4STABLE4 on RH7.2, the newer version
> should work fine also.
>
> Be aware that RedHat uses gcc 2.96 which is buggy, as per this notice from
> MySQL:
>
> Compiler Advisory:
> Several of our users have reported random crashes and table corruption
> with MySQL binaries compiled with gcc 2.96 on the x86 Linux platform.
> Although we were unable to duplicate the problems ourselves or understand
> their exact cause, we suspect with a great degree of confidence that the
> problem was compiler related. Replacing the faulty binary with our binary
> always eliminated the problem.
>
> This may be a problem with any other programs with high disk I/O, and that
> means Squid.
>
> Usually, squid.conf is reasonably backwards compatible. You should be able
> to use your existing squid.conf without any problems. Try doing
>
> diff squid.conf other.squid.conf
>
> to see if there are major differences in the config files, and if any
> syntax has changed. I think the only differences will be new parameters
> you can set, and if you use your old squid.conf then any new directives
> will be set to default values anyway, and the defaults are usually
> sensible for most setups.
>
>

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