Re: Linux-2.2.5 - and a vacation

Matthew Kirkwood (weejock@ferret.lmh.ox.ac.uk)
Tue, 30 Mar 1999 00:10:16 +0100 (GMT)


On Mon, 29 Mar 1999, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> Also, note that there have been various indications that egcs
> potentially miscompiles the kernel, or at least makes some problems
> worse. We don't know whether that is due to one or more kernel bugs,
> compiler problems, or just combinations of "features" in both. I would
> suggest that if you have problems you at least verify whether the
> problems still exist with gcc-2.7.2.

Jeff Law seemed to have an idea about it.
http://egcs.cygnus.com/ml/egcs/1999-03/msg00886.html

I don't know if there's a clean workaround until they can fix it...

Matthew.

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