Re: Linux 2.1.127 problem

Marc Lehmann (pcg@goof.com)
Sun, 8 Nov 1998 23:10:32 +0100


On Sun, Nov 08, 1998 at 01:39:36AM -0700, Ely Wilson wrote:
> HJL>-O6 -mcpu=pentium -march=pentium
>
> But let me guess, a decnet-enough -O2 works fine right?
>
> Maybe something about the O6, like an optimzation not fit for a kernel at
> all.

It doesn't even work with -O2 -march=pentiumpro (same symptom). I guess its
one of the many non-fixed asms (the mainline egcs doesn't compile it anymore
as it complains about almost every asm) that happen to work most of the
time.

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