Messages in this thread | | | From | David Woodhouse <> | Date | Tue, 24 Apr 2001 14:30:09 +0100 |
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vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl said: > These "broken and cryptic" checks have been done several times now. > You could certainly add a note to this effect to the documentation on > building the kernel.
> Building a known broken kernel just for the sake of "better error > reporting" is dead wrong, IMO.
The fact that the error is reported in a cryptic fashion is a minor issue. The important point is that the check itself is broken and not guaranteed to work even with good compilers.
-- dwmw2
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