Re: everyone who has VM problems/messages (writable swappage or crash or lockup)

Alex Buell (alex.buell@tahallah.demon.co.uk)
Thu, 9 Jul 1998 14:32:04 -0400 (EDT)


On Thu, 9 Jul 1998, Alan Cox wrote:

> Its quite happy to rearrange the order of operations for performance and
> to remove "dead code". Of course the former when not correctly marked in
> device drivers is a disaster and the latter tends to include little things
> like delay loops that have been handled wrongly.

Ahh, now I understand what the problem is. Maybe we need an option to add
to egcs, something like -wlobotomy or something like that. :o) And rename
it ofotcn (One flew over the cuckoo's nest).. excuse my silliness!

Oh well, at least having two compilers that works so differently helps to
expose "holes" in the kernel sources, and improve its portability to other
architectures, right?

Cheers,
Alex.

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