Re: XFS corruption on move from xscale to i686

[Yura Pakhuchiy]

2005/7/14, Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 04:50:01PM +0300, Yura Pakhuchiy wrote:
> > 2005/7/14, Nathan Scott <nathans@xxxxxxx>:
> > > On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 06:22:28PM +0300, Yura Pakhuchiy wrote:
> > > > I found patch by Greg Ungreger to fix this problem, but why it's still
> > > > not in mainline? Or it's a gcc problem and should be fixed by gcc folks?
> > >
> > > Yes, IIRC the patch was incorrect for other platforms, and it sure
> > > looked like an arm-specific gcc problem (this was ages back, so
> > > perhaps its fixed by now).
> >
> > AFAIR gcc-3.4.3 was released after this conversation take place at linux-xfs,
> > maybe add something like this:
> >
> > #ifdef XSCALE
> >     /* We need this because some gcc versions for xscale are broken. */
> >     [patched version here]
> > #else
> >     [original version here]
> > #endif
> 
> no, just fix your compiler or let the gcc folks do it.  Did anyone of
> the arm folks ever open a PR at the gcc bugzilla with a reproduced
> testcase?  You're never get your compiler fixed with that attitude.

Yes, but a lof of people use older versions of compilers and suffer
from this bug.
I personally was very unhappy when lost my data.

Best regards,
        Yura
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