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From: "Vamsi Krishna S." <vamsi_krishna@in.ibm.com>
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Subject: Re: Release of LKST 1.3
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 13:48:53 +0530
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Hi,

>>From the howto-1.3.txt

> Known Problems:
>
> - GCC 2.96, which is a kernel compiler in RedHat, with -O2 option generates
> wrong code around Kernel Hooks that caused the kernel panic. To avoid this
> problem, you use the GCC 2.95, which is a standard kernel compiler.

I use 2.96 here all the time and haven't seen it miscompile hooks. Can you 
please elaborate what the problems are and give a me small sample code
to demonstrate the problem.

Thanks,
Vamsi.

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Vamsi Krishna S.
Linux Technology Center,
IBM Software Lab, Bangalore.
Ph: +91 80 5044959
Internet: vamsi@in.ibm.com