Re: gcc 2.95.3

[Russell King]

On Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 12:20:02AM +0100, Stef van der Made wrote:
> Same here. I've been using gcc3.2.0 and beyond currently 3.3.2 since the 
> day they were released and never had any big issues. I would recomend 
> using gcc 3.3.2 since it improves performance when using optimizations 
> quite a bit as far as I can remember the statistics.

On ARM at least, gcc 3.2.x seems buggy.  It's along the lines of this:

 3.2.0: incorrect function argument offset calculation.
 3.2.x: miscompiles NEW_AUX_ENT in fs/binfmt_elf.c
        (http://gcc.gnu.org/PR8896) and incorrect structure
        initialisation in fs/jffs2/erase.c

I suspect that the fs/jffs2/erase.c problem is not ARM-specific, though
I'm no compiler expert.

However, gcc 3.3 seems table on ARM, and I'm not aware of any problems
with any further 3.3.x releases.

-- 
Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
 maintainer of:  2.6 PCMCIA      - http://pcmcia.arm.linux.org.uk/
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