On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 12:07:08PM +0900, Namhyung Kim wrote: > I've sent basically same patch to x86 folks [1] and they said there is a > possiblility of miscompilation on gcc 3. I am not sure the same goes > here on mips but it might be safer to keep it. Sorry for the noise ;-( > > [1] http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/8/8/138 So in a distant future when GCC 3.x will finally be retired we will be able to apply this patch, sigh. I'll drop your patch for the time being and add a comment to the code. Thanks! Ralf