Re: Linux-2.2.5 - and a vacation

Daniel Egger (Daniel.Egger@t-online.de)
Wed, 31 Mar 1999 10:04:42 +0200


On Mon, 29 Mär 1999, Linus Torvalds wrote:

>Also, note that there have been various indications that egcs potentially
>miscompiles the kernel, or at least makes some problems worse. We don't
>know whether that is due to one or more kernel bugs, compiler problems, or
>just combinations of "features" in both. I would suggest that if you have
>problems you at least verify whether the problems still exist with
>gcc-2.7.2.

Hm, egcs (no matter which version) won't compile the ISDN drivers (to be a bit
more precise: isdnl2.c) due to an internal compiler because of a signal 11.
This problem disappears when I compile it with -O1 only or by downgrading to
2.2.2. So it seems like there is a problem with a header change which I'm not
able to resolve.
I'll build egcs with debugging code to pin down this problem.

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Servus, Daniel

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