> It seems that newer gcc (4.8.2) works again (see the Mikael/Mikulas > thread on "ski" on this mailing list. I also managed to build a kernel > with gcc 4.8.2 and boot it on my rx2600. Tony, is GDB working correctly with your gcc 4.8.2-compiled kernel? Indeed, one noticeable evidence of optimization's breakage is GDB stopping with SIGTRAP at address 0 as soon as GDB's run command is executed [1]. Émeric [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=691576 -- 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