Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 13 Jan 2003 10:19:01 -0500 | From | Daniel Jacobowitz <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Check compiler version, SMP and PREEMPT. |
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On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 04:13:19PM +1100, Rusty Russell wrote: > Linus, please apply if you agree. > > Tridge reported getting burned by gcc 3.2 compiled (Debian) XFree > modules not working on his gcc 2.95-compiled kernel. Interestingly, > (as Tridge points out) modversions probably would not have caught the > change in spinlock size, since the ioctl takes a void*, not a > structure pointer...
> D: and compiler version (spinlocks change size on UP with gcc major, > D: at least).
Why does this happen? It doesn't look like it should, but I only skimmed the headers checking...
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