>>>>> "Tony" == Tony Luck <Luck> writes: >> What I'll do today, is try a number of different compiler version >> (it's realtively easy for me to do this), and email tomorrow which >> ones compile a generic kernel, and if I have time, which ones boot. Tony> Are some versions of the compiler actually broken (and Tony> generating spurious stuff so overflowing this section) ... or Tony> are we just skating close to the edge so that minor differences Tony> in generated code push us over the limit. Some compilers are broken. I think 3.5.4 is OK, except it's generating some spurious stuff. Tony> If the only reason to reject a compiler version can be fixed by Tony> Andrew's patch to change the 0x500 to 0x600 in gate.lds.S, then Tony> that seems a reasonable thing to do. I agree. -- Dr Peter Chubb http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au peterc AT gelato.unsw.edu.au http://www.ertos.nicta.com.au ERTOS within National ICT Australia - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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