Re: [PATCH -rc 0/4] Protect from GCC garbage input in GCOV

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Wed Sep 02 2020 - 13:43:17 EST

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On Wed, Sep 2, 2020 at 1:55 AM Leon Romanovsky <leon@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Bottom line, GCOV is broken on GCC 10.2.

The patches don't really make sense to me.

How about we just disable GCOV with the known-broken compiler version
instead? As mentioned in the replies to individual patches, it looks
like the "fixes" are random bandaids that don't _really_ fix anything.

Linus

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