[opensource-dev] Almost certainly not your fault...

[Glen Canaday]

On Saturday, December 04, 2010 11:30:55 am Ponzu wrote:
> ...but I thought I should at least mention it.
> 
> I have been experimenting with compilers on OS X.  GCC 4.2  LLVM.  Clang.
>  Self educational OS X stuff.
> 
> Compile and link seems to work, but starting up Second Life leads to a
> kernel panic.  This is the only time I have ever seen OS X panic, so this
> is a pretty cool accomplishment.
> 
> FYI, LLVM is a very cool change to the compile-optimize-link chain.  it
> should lead to new and approved link-time optimizations.  Clang, on the
> other hand, is a new C++ parser front end.  It is supposed to be much
> faster than GCC.  We shall see.
> 
> regards,
> ponzu

You can get it to panic with faulty hardware, too. Happened to my powerbook G4 
way back, when the airport died.

Never ever saw it happen with software, so yeah that's a pretty crazy 
achievement.

--GC