There are two gcc bugs which are having serious impact on the kernel. http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54369 http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54494 Afaics the first one affects SPARC and MIPS in versions 4.5 ... 4.7.1 while the second one affects all architectures but is specific to gcc 4.7.0 and 4.7.1. Ralf