Re: Linux 2.0.3x & gcc 2.8

Matthias Urlichs (smurf@work.smurf.noris.de)
5 Feb 1998 09:10:01 +0100


Kurt Garloff <garloff@kg1.ping.de> writes:
>
> Note, that there is not only gcc-280 but also the egcs compiler (in which
> bugs are fixed were quickly) but which also (correctly) fails on the
> ioport.c hack.
>
Right. People are actually using egcs snapshots for production-use kernels...
Us for one, and beside the ioport.c problem and a heap of possibly-
misguided warnings I've not had any problem at all. Except that the systems
seems faster, somehow...

Then again, maybe we're just using the wrong network drivers. ;-)

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Matthias Urlichs
noris network GmbH