dump-0.2a.announce

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   2         I have received bug reports about dump telling that dump receives
   3 unexpected signals when dump directories (in pass III).  I have tried to
   4 reproduce the problem and it appears that this may be caused by an optimization
   5 problem in some versions of gcc.  Dump works fine when compiled with
   6 optimization by gcc 2.6.2 but it fails when compiled by gcc 2.6.3:
   7         - either it gets an unexpected signal (SIGFPE),
   8         - or it issues warnings ``Warning: dumpdirino called with file type
   9           040000'' and does not dump directories.
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  11         I am not courageous enough to study the assembly code generated by
  12 gcc (yet :-), so I have modified the Makefiles to compile dump without
  13 optimizations.  I have also fixed a few minor bugs and removed some printf's
  14 that I had added during my tests.  I will study the assembly code generated
  15 by gcc soon and fix the problem.
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  17         The fixed version (numbered 0.2a) is now available on tsx-11.mit.edu
  18 in the directory /pub/linux/packages/ext2fs.  Please get it if you are using
  19 dump and restore.
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  21         Thanks to Daniel Veillard <Daniel.Veillard@imag.fr>, Bob Snyder
  22 <rsnyder@janet.advsys.com>, and Florian La Roche <rzsfl@rz.uni-sb.de> for
  23 their reports and their help!
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  25 --
  26 Remy Card
  27 Remy.Card@freenix.fr