Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 27 Mar 1999 19:25:42 -0800 | From | Richard Henderson <> | Subject | Re: lots of 2.2.4 oopses |
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On Wed, Mar 24, 1999 at 07:39:51PM +0000, Linus Torvalds wrote: > I would _much_ prefer it if you could try to compile 2.2.4 with > gcc-2.7.2. We now have two reports of an oops like this, and in both > cases egcs was used as the compiler. And egcs is doing alias analysis > these days - and following the ANSI rules about aliases is something > that we haven't validated that the kernel is doing correctly (and that's > assuming that egcs is bug-free, which is obviously also a potential > issue).
-fno-strict-aliasing will turn this optimization off.
r~
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