> On Mon, 9 Nov 1998, Steven N. Hirsch wrote:
> > I had previously reported that (real, non-pre) 2.1.127 Ooopsed fatally
> > (and consistantly) at boot. After reading HJ's report about faulty code
> > generation, I rebuilt with gcc-2.7.2 (from RedHat Intel 5.1 distribution),
> > and it came up without incident!
> >
> > My egcs level is currently 2.91.57 (release 1.1). This is absolutely the
> > first such problem I've seen in a year of using egcs.
>
> Linus doesn't use egcs, so this is not surprising. When you use different
> tools than the main developers, you are porting to a different
> environment. So bugs are expected and normal.
No doubt. I guess I've been leading a charmed life, then, being as this
was the first such bug that bit me.
I'm planning to steer well clear of the religous wars regarding compilers
and compiler design. I know enough about both to follow the discussions -
and enough about propriety to stay out of them myself.
Steve
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