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

I'm going to try the'new' gcc-4.1.1

> ----- 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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