Linus> Oh, this release may or may not work on Linux/alpha: at least
Linus> gcc-2.7.0 using -O2 seems to mess up the compilation of
Linus> fs/ext2/file.c (it compiles "cleanly", but the resulting
Linus> assembly doesn't really match the original C code very well -
Linus> it dies on bootup). I haven't tried a newer compiler
Linus> (anybody?).
gcc-2.7.1 seems to get things right (at least with -O as I have the
bad habit of not using -O2...).
One change in 1.3.53 that Linus didn't mention (I believe): the SCSI
driver no longer wastes memory on machines with a page size that is
greater than 4KB (Jay, this is a bug you reported several moons ago).
--david
PS: I uploaded a micro-patch for gcc-2.7.1 that fixes the glimit.h
problem that many of you ran into. Before building gcc-2.7.1, be
sure to apply both of axpsrc-gcc-2.7.1.patch{,-2}.gz (as usual, they
patches are in ftp://ftp.azstarnet.com/pub/linux/axp/misc).