Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 09 Sep 2002 14:06:42 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Important per-cpu fix. |
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Alan Cox wrote: > > On Mon, 2002-09-09 at 09:15, David S. Miller wrote: > > Note that Andrew Morton found the problem on one of his older > > x86 EGCS's about the same time I found it on sparc64. > > egcs gets so many long long things wrong on x86 that its only valid use > IMHO for 2.5 is as a syntax checker. Is it really worth an ugly hack for > a compiler one major developer has a personal affliction for and a port > that has a tiny user base and now has a working compiler. > > Maybe if we put less gunk in the kernel they'd fix gcc more often 8)
Please. I'm not a reason for hanging onto egcs-1.1.2; and I'll downgrade to 2.95.2 when egcs-1.1.2 is retired (as I did a while back).
But as long as we need to support 1.1.2, I use it. To detect breakage, and because it compiles kernels 30% faster. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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