alpha vm endless loop at bootstrap?

[Brian Rice]

Ouch! I am so dead-wrong on this. It's happening on my new bootstraps  
on any platform. :( I'm iterating through recent patches now to see  
which one is the cause.

On Jun 1, 2005, at 11:23 AM, Brian Rice wrote:

> Oddly, it seems to be Windows-only, and independent of the compiler  
> used. Someone please confirm this, as my WinXP box is still not  
> functioning right. I'd like to get this fixed before incrementing  
> Slate's version again.
>
> On Jun 1, 2005, at 8:12 AM, Bill Sun wrote:
>
>> Yes, this is also reported in the "directory bug in
>> Windows" thread, starting from my reply.  There's also
>> a stack trace report by one of the users.
>>
>> --- Lendvai Attila <Attila.Lendvai at netvisor.hu> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Hi!
>>>
>>> I've tried to compile the alpha vm + image on
>>> cygwin, gcc 3.3.3 but
>>> after printing the please wait it may take a while
>>> message, it ends up
>>> in an endless loop. I was waiting for minutes and no
>>> file was loaded,
>>> just eating up the cpu and doing visibly nothing...
>>>
>>> Any ideas? Other encounters?
>>>
>>> - 101