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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] alternative compat_ioctl table implementation
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On Friday 02 May 2003 20:09, Andi Kleen wrote:

> Rather ugly. In my experience all vmlinux.lds hacks are very fragile
> and they break when you just look at them in the wrong way. Also when
> something goes wrong they are a bitch to debug. And binutils is not
> exactly known for not introducing bugs with new releases.
Ok.

> Can't you work around that gcc 2.95 bug in some other way ?
Yes. I noticed now that only the x86_64 code (from which I copied) 
contains the assembly version that breaks on cross-compile
and the sparc64 version works fine.

	Arnd <><