Re: lots of 2.2.4 oopses

Richard Henderson (rth@twiddle.net)
Sat, 27 Mar 1999 19:25:42 -0800

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On Wed, Mar 24, 1999 at 07:39:51PM +0000, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> I would _much_ prefer it if you could try to compile 2.2.4 with
> gcc-2.7.2. We now have two reports of an oops like this, and in both
> cases egcs was used as the compiler. And egcs is doing alias analysis
> these days - and following the ANSI rules about aliases is something
> that we haven't validated that the kernel is doing correctly (and that's
> assuming that egcs is bug-free, which is obviously also a potential
> issue).

-fno-strict-aliasing will turn this optimization off.

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