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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com (Jeff Garzik)
Cc: pavel@suse.cz (Pavel Machek),
	torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds),
	andrewm@uow.edu.au (Andrew Morton),
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (lkml)
Subject: Re: [patch] kernel/module.c (plus gratuitous rant)
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 22:12:47 +0100 (BST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E13pGnv-0004rv-00@the-village.bc.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <39F9E849.D799D4A5@mandrakesoft.com> from "Jeff Garzik" at Oct 27, 2000 04:40:41 PM

> Pavel Machek wrote:
> > Would it be possible to keep 2.7.2.3? You still need 2.7.2.3 to
> > reliably compile 2.0.X (and maybe even 2.2.all-but-latest?).
> 
> What fails, when you use egcs-1.1.2 to build 2.0.x or early 2.2.x?

egcs miscompiles inlined strstr. It gets combined with bad asm constraints
to mean that 2.0 and earlier 2.2 will crash when fed the right (wrong ?) 
sequence of FPU ops to software emulate


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  reply	other threads:[~2000-10-27 21:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <39F5830E.7963A935@uow.edu.au>
     [not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.10.10010241353590.1743-100000@penguin.transmeta.com>
2000-10-27 17:45   ` [patch] kernel/module.c (plus gratuitous rant) Pavel Machek
2000-10-27 20:40     ` Jeff Garzik
2000-10-27 21:12       ` Alan Cox [this message]
2000-10-27 20:46     ` Alan Cox
2000-10-28  1:00     ` Keith Owens
2000-10-28 11:15       ` Dominik Kubla
2000-10-29  0:27         ` Richard Henderson
2000-10-29 15:09           ` Dominik Kubla
2000-10-30 11:05             ` Peter Samuelson
2000-10-30 18:50               ` Richard Henderson
2000-10-29 23:23       ` Rusty Russell
2000-10-30 11:08         ` Peter Samuelson
2000-10-30 11:19           ` Recommended compiler? - " Linux Kernel Developer
2000-10-30 11:58             ` Peter Samuelson
2000-10-30 13:49               ` Martin Dalecki
2000-10-30 20:50                 ` Horst von Brand
2000-10-30 22:02                   ` Jakub Jelinek
2000-10-31 10:27                   ` Martin Dalecki

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