Possible GCC contamination of Linux

Richard B. Johnson (root@chaos.analogic.com)
Mon, 20 Sep 1999 10:45:05 -0400 (EDT)

Hello,
I spent the weekend trying to track down the reason why Linux (any
recent version), complied for a 486-SX (no FPU), will not boot.
It crashes during startup, about the time it looks for a PCI bus.

The C Compiler (version 2.8.1) was compiled on a i686 machine. If I
recompile on a '486, it will generate a Linux image that boots okay.

So it looks as though the C Compiler, compiled on a 686, generates 686
machine-code instructions. I don't think this is the correct behavior
because the gcc command-line contains -m486.

So, is there the possibility that something from the gcc library gets
linked into the kernel? If so, how would I prevent it from happening?

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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