[omniORB] Segfaults on exceptions. RedHat 7.2

[Dan Kegel]

The Red Hat 7 compilers all say 2.96-xx.  The xx is very
significant; they have fixed a lot of problems over the months,
and generally, the higher xx's are quite good.
- Dan

Maged Mokhtar wrote:
> 
> on my RedHat 7.2, gcc -v gives :
> gcc version 2.96 20000731 ( Red Hat Linux 7.1 2.96-98 )
> 
> if i understand you correctly, compiling the OmniORB libs on redhat
> version 7.1 ( with gcc that comes with it ) is no good.
> i'll give it a shot with 7.2, but am not very optimistic as the gcc version
> is
> very close to 7.1
> 
> thanks a lot.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brenneis, Steve [mailto:steve.brenneis@attws.com]
> 
> What version of gcc are you using? RedHat shipped a custom version of gcc
> with 7.1 that had some serious problems, especially in the areas of
> exception handling and inheritance. I believe that version will spit out
> 2.96 (maybe 2.96.something) when you invoke gcc -v. I stepped everything on
> my Linux machines back to 2.95.3 and I am using omniORB 3.0.4 with the
> 2.4.14 kernel without issues. I think RH 7.2 ships with the 2.4.9 kernel,
> but I don't think anything happened in between that should give omniORB gas.