Re: Linux 2.6.22 released

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Wed Jul 11 2007 - 18:16:37 EST


> I don't think this is worth even trying to fix. This is terminal compiler
> breakage. Make a bug-report to the gcc people, the inline asm stuff has
> been totally buggered by that compiler version.
>
> If it mis-compiled that part, it probably miscompiled a lot of other
> things too.

I just checked with today's gcc 4.2 (070711) freshly compiled and from a quick inspection
the code looks correct again. So perhaps it has been already fixed?

http://firstfloor.org/~andi/signal.s-070711

Result also boots

Unfortunately the date is not checkable in gcc so we can't easily add #errors.

-Andi
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