On Sun, May 06, 2007 at 11:51:24PM -0700, Piet Delaney wrote: > On Sat, 2007-05-05 at 10:59 -0700, Tom Rini wrote: > > 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. > > No, IOW the kerenl is fine with buggy compilers.
But gcc-4.1.1 is the fixed one, yes? Or did Jason not hit the magic combination that would show the issue? > > > 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? > > I'm running gcc-3.4.1 and haven't seen any messages > "update your compiler" Yes, as that's another stable, non-buggy compiler. -- Tom Rini ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Kgdb-bugreport mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kgdb-bugreport
