All,
----- Original Message -----
From: J . A . Magallon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, March 02, 2001 7:39 AM
Subject: Re: [Cooker] gcc-2.96
<snip>
> And about compilers being broken, none is sane. This ten lines example
> was posted in kernel list recently. Try compiling it with -O2.
> egcs miscompiles it, also 2.95.2, 2.95.3 and 2.96. It seems a bug in
> x86 scpecific optimizations, because it does not happen in other archs
> (I have tested IRIX and Solaris). The problem is solved using
> -fno-strenght-reduce.
If people would read the README in the kernel source, it says to
use -fno-strength-reduce with -O2 or higher on x86. Also, isn't that the
default in the Makefile?
Matthew D. Pitts
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
