dump-0.2b.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         Finding the problem was not an easy task because the behavior seemed
  12 to be related to the version of the compiler.  Anyway, I have found it :-)
  13 There was an incorrect assignement in the function dumpdirino(), which is
  14 responsible for dumping the contents of directories, and this caused some
  15 problems when compiled with optimizations by some versions of gcc.  After
  16 fixing the problem, dump runs fine when compiled by gcc 2.6.3 or gcc 2.7.0.
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  18         The new fixed version (numbered 0.2b) is now available on
  19 tsx-11.mit.edu in the directory /pub/linux/packages/ext2fs.  Please get it
  20 if you are using dump and restore.
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  22         Thanks to Daniel Veillard <Daniel.Veillard@imag.fr>, Bob Snyder
  23 <rsnyder@janet.advsys.com>, and Florian La Roche <rzsfl@rz.uni-sb.de> for
  24 their reports and their help!
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  26 --
  27 Remy Card
  28 Remy.Card@freenix.fr