Re: EGCS not compiling process.c - FIX!

Myrdraal (myrdraal@jackalz.dyn.ml.org)
Wed, 19 Nov 1997 05:45:02 -0500


On Tue, Nov 18, 1997 at 09:34:25PM -0400, Garst R. Reese wrote:
Hi,
> > Anyone who's having that problem with egcs not compiling process.c, add
> > -fno-strength-reduce and it will compile successfully.
> Does this mean that we can compile the kernel with GCC 2.7.2.3 without
> this option?
> I notice that when I configure LyX it reports that this bug is not
> present.
> Could the kernel configure also do this test?
I believe it was a workaround for an oldish version of GCC, I don't remember
the exact version. And about kernel configure testing... I don't know.
> BTW, could anyone tell me where to get ksymoops?
It's in the scripts/ directory of your kernel source directory.
-Myrdraal