Re: Another egcs victim!

John Alvord (jalvo@cloud9.net)
Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:11:17 -0500 (EST)


On Mon, 9 Nov 1998, Steven N. Hirsch wrote:

> All,
>
> I had previously reported that (real, non-pre) 2.1.127 Ooopsed fatally
> (and consistantly) at boot. After reading HJ's report about faulty code
> generation, I rebuilt with gcc-2.7.2 (from RedHat Intel 5.1 distribution),
> and it came up without incident!
>
> My egcs level is currently 2.91.57 (release 1.1). This is absolutely the
> first such problem I've seen in a year of using egcs.

Linus doesn't use egcs, so this is not surprising. When you use different
tools than the main developers, you are porting to a different
environment. So bugs are expected and normal.

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