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SubjectRe: pre egcs-1.1 testing and Linux 2.1.x


On Sun, 23 Aug 1998, David S. Miller wrote:
>
> However, I will continue to ignore developers who don't say "we
> will fix it eventually", but instead say "let's remove the feature,
> we'll never be able to fix it".
>
> And the egcs team has not said the latter. But they will turn the
> feature off until such time as the fix is made, since it generates
> incorrect code.

People I trust tell me that the problem can occur even without regparm,
it's just that regparm is able to trigger the _real_ bug much more easily.

As such, disabling the feature pretty much amounts to hiding your head in
the sand.

Oh, well.

Linus


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