Do you think it's worth re-compiling with a <gcc-4.1??

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Thomas Schmitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2006 12:42 PM
Subject: Re: [ivtv-devel] i2c problems with FC5 and svn ivtv 0.8.0


> On Wednesday 31 May 2006 21:12, Simon Baxter wrote:
>> I'm not sure if anyone's following my problems with getting a new PVR-150
>> card and ivtv working with Fedora Core 5.
>
> I am sure following since I have nearly the same problem on my SuSE 10.1
> system (see my posting "ivtv-0.6.x / gcc-4.1 / SUSE 10.1 problems" of
> 2006-05-24) for which there also have been no helpful replies.
> The only thing I know is that the problem is depended on the
> compiler/linker toolchain. I can only think of two reasons at
> the moment:
>
> 1) a code generation bug in gcc-4.1.
> 2) better code optimization in gcc-4.1 breaks some assumptions of
>    the i2c code. The compiler has really no idea about the dependencies
>    needed for accessing hardware (e.g a specific store that has to
>    occur before a load) and may reorder C level statements at will as
>    long as the C semantics are preserved.
>
> Given that everything else compiled by the gcc 4.1 looks to be fine
> and how often I wrongly tried to blame a compiler for some bugs I
> tend to favor 2).
>
> Thomas
>
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