On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 09:01:44AM -0500, James Bottomley wrote: > > With gcc 4.2.3 I get the same error. The noinline patch fixes it again. > > > > text data bss dec hex filename > > 6721720 624416 397508 7743644 76289c vmlinux-gcc-4.2.3 > > OK, so it's an unfixed bug in gcc, and it looks to be specific to the > alpha backend. No, other architectures are just lucky that the compiler decides a) not to generate a jump table for switch statement in sd_major() and/or b) not to inline this function. I have a similar test case that fails on x86 as well. > if the compiler chooses to inline a function, it has to > respect the sectional (and other constraints) of the outer function. > Can someone file a bug report with the relevant compiler people? It would be good, but in the meantime the 'noinline' fix seems to be a most sensible option... Ivan. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
