"Brian O'Mahoney" <omb@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > Last, a word to the wise, compiler developers, are by nature fairly agressive > but, unless you want to work on gcc itself, it is wise to stay a bit behind > the bleeding edge, and, unless your systems are excellently backed up, > ___DONT_BUILD_THE_KERNEL___ with and untested gcc. I mean a kernel you are > going to try to run. For an example of why not see the 'ix68 string > direction' fiasco noting that an interrupt can happen anywhere and that the > CPU x flag is a non-deterministic (to the interrupt code) part of the > interrupted context. Oh what fun! This particular problem has nothing to do with the compiler that built the kernel. -Andi -- ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
