Re: Which compiler to use?

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Thu Nov 16 2000 - 18:09:11 EST

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> Please note that 2.91.66 WILL NOT correctly build any bit of 2.4 (or
> probably 2.2) on i386 that uses the kernel version of strstr, because of a
> register allocation bug. This currently affects the DEPCA driver, but very
> few other things.
>
> 2.95.2 is OK in this instance and elsewhere for me (YMMV).

2.95.2 miscompiles strstr in some cases too. Current 2.2 however has strstr
no longer inlined. I got bored of playing guess the compiler bug

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