Re: Possible GCC contamination of Linux

Richard B. Johnson (root@chaos.analogic.com)
Mon, 20 Sep 1999 11:07:32 -0400 (EDT)


On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, David S. Miller wrote:

> Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 10:45:05 -0400 (EDT)
> From: "Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com>
>
> So, is there the possibility that something from the gcc library
> gets linked into the kernel? If so, how would I prevent it from
> happening?
>
> Yes, parts of libgcc.a are necessary for certain types "long long"
> arithmetic at the very least.
>
> Later,
> David S. Miller
> davem@redhat.com
>

Bingo! Do you know of any way to fix this? I only have one '486 machine
and it's way too slow to use for development. The target embeded machine
is a '486.

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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