Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 23 Nov 2000 16:44:36 +0100 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: {PATCH} isofs stuff |
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On Thu, Nov 23, 2000 at 07:37:27AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > I have seen that there were discussions on the right compiler to use. > > Is 2.95.2 wrong? Have other things to do tomorrow, so it will be > > 24 hours before I can look at this again. > > 2.95.2 should have been reasonably ok, but egcs-2.91.66 is probably > considered the most stable compiler right now. > > Note that gcc has always had problems with "long long" variables. Very few > people use them as they aren't standard, and the code generation can be > much trickier, so bugs are much more likely. This (along with performance > issues) was why I refused the original LFS patches - they put "long long" > code all over the place.
gcc 2.95.2 seems to have more problems with long long the egcs 1.1, I have at least one test case where it miscompiles a variable long long shift.
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