Re: Possible GCC contamination of Linux

Sergey Kubushin (ksi@ksi-linux.com)
Mon, 20 Sep 1999 19:00:18 +0300 (EEST)


On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, Richard B. Johnson wrote:

> On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, David S. Miller wrote:
>
> > Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 10:45:05 -0400 (EDT)
> > From: "Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com>
> >
> > 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?
> >
> > Yes, parts of libgcc.a are necessary for certain types "long long"
> > arithmetic at the very least.
> >
> > Later,
> > David S. Miller
> > davem@redhat.com
> >
>
> Bingo! Do you know of any way to fix this? I only have one '486 machine
> and it's way too slow to use for development. The target embeded machine
> is a '486.

I do :)) Look into the development code for new KSI Linux distribution,
code name Manticore ...

I can say even more - some programs built on i686 machine won't work on
i586...

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