On Sat, Nov 11, 2000 at 09:21:01PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>
> We tried once; at that point the register-based ABI support in gcc was
> too buggy to be useful. We might try again in 2.5 since we now have
> increased the minimum gcc version for kernel compiles. Binutils needs no
> change.
As far as I know egcs 1.1 still has fastcall bugs, they were only fixed in
2.95 (which unfortunately has other bugs). So to use it the minimum compiler
would need to be bumped again.
-Andi
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