Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: Updated 2.4 TODO List -- new addition WAS(test9 PCI | Date | Thu, 12 Oct 2000 09:47:27 -0400 | From | Horst von Brand <> |
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Cort Dougan <cort@fsmlabs.com> said: > Horst von Brand on Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 11:21:06PM -0400 said:
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> } Oh, come on. The kernel (or glibc for that matter) is not about "inline > } asm()" at all! That is a tiny fraction of each. The kernel is different in > } that it has lots of hardware-dependent code, which leads to some rather > } strange contortions in C in order to be able to _avoid_ asm. The kernel > } also moves forward a lot faster than glibc, and grows a lot. A bug in glibc > } means an application goes down or screws up, a bug in the kernel can mean > } masive data loss in no time at all.
> I don't think I understand your point. Are you saying that gcc cannot be > expected to keep up with the ways in which the kernel uses it? My argument > is that providing a compiler that actually regresses (old version compiles > kernel, redhat 7.0 included one does not) is not a good choice.
What I'm stating is just the fact that the kernel isn't keeping up with the compiler. -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand mailto:vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 797513 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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