Re: ___ 2.0.34-pre11 (and pre16 too) /dev/mem broken???

Horst von Brand (vonbrand@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl)
Wed, 03 Jun 1998 14:44:44 -0500

Philip Blundell <pb@nexus.co.uk> said:
> >development glibc v2.1 releases requires gcc-2.8.1. :o( I don't really
> >want to have to upgrade to gcc-2.8.1 in order to use glibc v2.1, when I
> >have a perfectly good v2.7.2.3 compiler! Whose *insert your favourite
> >expletive here* decision was this, and why?

> It wasn't a deliberate decision. 2.7.2.x has bugs that cause it to
> miscompile the glibc code.

And kernels 2.0.xx have bugs that cause _them_ to be miscompiled by
gcc-2.8.x/egcs ;-)

> You can install several different versions of gcc and select between them
> with the -V switch. This may help you. Alternatively, 2.1 kernels seem
> OK when compiled with gcc 2.8 or egcs.

I've been using egcs snapshots almost exclusively for some months now,
compiling lots of 2.1.xx kernels with them (also much userland code) and
had only minor problems (mostly due to the shakeout of the 2.0.xx bugs
mentioned above). This here is currently linux-2.1.104-1, compiled with
egcs-2.91.34 (ss 19980531), glibc-2.0.94 + a patch, binutils-2.9.1.0.6 on
i586. 

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Horst von Brand                             vonbrand@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl
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