On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 10:44:30PM +0100, Vivien Chappelier wrote:
> Hi,
>
> There is a binutils bug (as) which produces bad addresses when
> getting the address of a struct member for initializing the same struct,
> and when there is data or static functions declared before:
> int test = 0xdeadbeef;
>
> struct {
> int dummy;
> void *ptr;
> } bug =
> {
> ptr: &bug.ptr
> };
>
> will produce bad value for bug.ptr.
>
> This patch move the declaration of kswapd_wait as a workaround to
> this compiler bug. This probably affects all mips64 kernels.
>
Shouldn't you fix the assmbler instead?
H.J.
