On 10/4/07, Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 08:11:05AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > >... > > and btw, there is no question what-so-ever about whether your compiler > > might be doing a legal optimization - the compiler really is wrong, and is > > total shit. You need to make a gcc bug-report. > >... > > Ingo can't send a gcc bug-report since gcc 4.0 is no longer supported > upstream and a 4.1.2 compiler was confirmed to work.
Ingo can upgrade to 4.0.4. :-) > Our only options are to either stop supporting the broken gcc versions > as compiler for the kernel or to work around this compiler bug in the > kernel. Distro can backport a fix for miscompilation while leaving, say, __GNUC_MINOR__ intact, so banning version numbers aren't terribly useful. Perhaps, someone should write a script/test program to check for known miscompilations. to cure himself from deprecation disease. Alexey "make cc_check" Dobriyan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/