Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 29 Sep 96 20:09 EDT | From | (Kevin J. Cummings ) | Subject | Re: Problem in compiling kernel |
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> On Sat, 28 Sep 1996, Kevin J. Cummings wrote: > > > I thought you had to use gcc 2.7.2 to compile the 1.3.x kernels and beyond > > (at least as of some particular 1.3.x release). This was about the time the > > dev teams "abandoned" a.out for ELF in the "official" releases. I don't > > remember the reasons why, but an optimization bug in gcc would seem to be the > > most likely reason (either the optimizer seg faults like you are reporting, > > I'm running 2.0.(4|10|16|18|21) compiled with GCC 2.6.3 on totally a.out > systems with libc 4.7.6. A dozen systmes can't all be flukes.
OK, I stand corrected. I guess the messages in the kernel documentation are just meaningless. Or perhaps you aren't using the optimizations that bring out the problem? kc
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