On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 23:00, Gwenole Beauchesne wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> >> In one case, 2.6.0-test4 is miscompiled with 3.3.1. Should be fixed in
> >> 3.3.1-2mdk but I don't know whether this would fix your bug or not.
> >
> > So is the cause for it panicking on boot? So presumably it will be 
> > fixed
> > by a reboot before 9.2 is released?
> 
> No, this means I was aware of one instance of a bug in gcc 3.3.1 that 
> miscompiled kernel 2.6-test4, at least some certain usages of 
> __builtin_expect. You can try to rebuild the current kernel SRPM with 
> latest gcc and see how things go.

Erm, of course I meant "rebuild" and not "reboot" above :). I'll try
rebuilding from the .src.rpm whenever the new GCC turns up on my
mirror...
-- 
adamw


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