On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 02:15:34AM -0800, David S. Miller wrote:
> From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
> Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2001 09:40:19 +0000
>
> Doesn't work at all, or just doesn't work with the (current) minimum
> recommended compiler? We have to increase those minima at some point.
>
> The "golden" sparc64 compiler has been in use for years and is what
> has the weak problem, and updating it would be a major pain in the
> butt.
Note that gcc-2.96-RH (particularly 2.96-101) is not that far off from being
usable on sparc64 AFAIK (there is just one miscompilation in ext2_statfs
I'm aware of which I've submitted fix for review yesterday), of course
further testing may prove otherwise.
Jakub
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