On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 05:40:31PM -0800, David Daney wrote: > The subject line kind of says it all. > > We are running linux 2.4.18 on a mips4Kc core (ATI Xilleon 225) and find > it to be quite stable when compiled with gcc 2.96/binutils 2.11.92.0.10 > > When the kernel is compiled with gcc 3.3.1/binutils 2.14.90.0.5 it also > seems to be quite stable, except for when one certian driver is used > (basically an mpeg decoder driver). Under certian conditions the system > seems to "freeze" (no messages printed anywhere and only a hard reset > will recover). > > Yeah that is a good bug report... > > But my main question is this: Have other people experienced > miscompilation (ie bad code generation) with gcc 3.3.1? > > One thing I am aware of is that if -fno-common is not used, bad code is > generated for accessing some large structures. But I we use -fno-common > for all compilation. > > I am trying to figrue out if I should be looking more at bugs in the > driver, or if I should give up on gcc 3.3.1 and be done with it. > > Thanks in advance for any insight. We haven't had problems here. -- Daniel Jacobowitz MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
