Re: Paravirt compile failure with gcc33

[Jan Engelhardt]

On Wednesday 2010-02-10 19:38, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:

> On 02/10/2010 10:13 AM, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>> As I was compile-testing 2.6.33-rc with gcc-3.3,
>> binutils-2.19.51-10.26.4.x86_64, I observed a failure when
>> CONFIG_PARAVIRT is turned on:
>>   
>
> Yeah, there's a gcc bug of some kind there, and its very hard to see how to
> work around it.  When we last discussed this, I think we were close to deciding
> to obsolete gcc 3.3.
>
> HPA, do you remember?

In fact, there's such a big bug in there that I'll get a runaway 
allocation later on when kvm.o is to be compiled. This is getting fun,
but I am absolutely fine with obsoleting 3.x  :)
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