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On Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 03:36:47PM +0200, Mikael Pettersson wrote: > Marcelo, > > Will you accept patches allowing gcc-3.4.0 to compile > 2.4.27 or not? I can understand if you want to be > conservative and not change _anything_ if you don't have to. > > gcc-3.4.0 errors out in 2.4.27-pre1 due to (a) inconsistent > FASTCALL declarations, (b) uninlinable inlines, and (c) > -funit-at-a-time which seems to leave unresolved calls to > strcpy() around [gcc optimises sprintf "%s" to strcpy()]. > There are also tons of warnings due to cast-as-lvalue > and "+m" asm() constraints. > > I currently have a 40KB+ patch for 2.4.27-pre1 which works > for me on i386, UP and SMP. The changes are all backports > from 2.6. I'll do x86_64 and ppc(32) in a few days. > > http://www.csd.uu.se/~mikpe/linux/patches/2.4/patch-gcc340-fixes-2.4.27-pre1 > is the location of the current version. Hi Mikael, The patch looks alright for me, but I better see reviews from other people. Since v2.4 is in feature freeze, I have a reason not to apply it. I'm not sure. Lets wait a while and see. - 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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