Re: ICMP in 2.2.9 (was 3c575)

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Fri, 11 Jun 1999 15:42:42 +0100 (BST)


> > 6 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss
> > (egcs miscompiled ping in RH 6.0)
>
> Do you mean that egcs version shipped in RH60 is not of production
> quality? I've had a weird problem which dissapeared by itself and points

Well if you want to be technically accurate about it then there is no
officially production quality egcs until gcc 3.0.0, but egcs sucks noticably
less than the 'production quality' gcc 2.8.1

> at egcs, I would say. Kernels up to 2.2.9 compiled with gcc 2.7.2.3 on
> RH52 worked fine on the same system after its upgrading to RH60. My first
> 2.2.9 kernel compiled on RH60 refused to load ide-cd module. The other day
> egcs produced a working ide-cd.

The only known egcs-1.1.2 kernel problems where sparc, and are fixed in the
errata. Im not sure right now if the ping bug is egcs or ping relying on a
gcc quirk

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