Re: is gcc 2.8 safe to use yet ?

Marek Habersack (grendel@vip.maestro.com.pl)
Thu, 19 Mar 1998 17:18:22 +0100 (CET)


On Thu, 19 Mar 1998, Kurt Garloff wrote:

> > > compilers under either 2.0.x or 2.1.x. I've also tried maxing out the
> > > optimization with all of them.. makes the kernel slower but works.
>
> If you want to use egcs-2.91.xx or gcc-2.8.x with 2.0.3x kernels in ix86
> machines, you have to replace the arch/i386/kernel/ioport.c with the 2.1.70+
> version of it. There's an optimization in gcc28/egcs that will prevent
> IOport access otherwise and thus prevent X from running.
Thanks a thousand times!!

later, marek

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