On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 07:36:17PM -0700, Pete/Piet Delaney wrote:

> Last evening I asked Andrew about it and his option is that the kernel
> supports being compiled with gcc 4.1.1. So that means it likely doesn't
> currently have the weak decl problem. The kernel has only a couple dozen
> (weak) declarations and interesting has a __weak decl in
> include/linux/compiler-gcc.h and a note about avoiding a gcc bug for
> ppc64. Looks like __weak isn't used.

IOW, the kernel is fine with a non-buggy compiler.

> Do you really want to be rejected from mainline because you break the
> kernel for some gcc compilers? Your "kind of think" isn't extremely
> comforting. How about having Milind Dumbare double check your reworking

Well, yes.  There's other cases, I would swear, where unless a big
distro shipped with a broken compiler, the kernel will say "update your
compiler".  So, do we know of any big distros that shipped gcc-4.1.0 and
doesn't have an update out?

-- 
Tom Rini

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