Re: 2.5.63 accesses below %esp (was: Re: ntfs OOPS (2.5.63))

From: Richard Henderson (rth@twiddle.net)
Date: Wed Mar 12 2003 - 02:52:23 EST


On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 07:07:26AM +0100, Szakacsits Szabolcs wrote:
> Only way I see is to detect it at build time, BIG warning to the user
> of compiler, print a well visible "kernel was built by broken tools"
> message at boot time to end users ...

You don't have to let things go that far. If you have a test
case, then you can run the test case at build time, and have
the make actively fail. So the kernel never gets built at all.

r~
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