Re: isapnp and pnpdump seam to dump core on 2.0.34

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Mon, 22 Jun 1998 14:01:49 +0100 (BST)

> > Don't build 2.0.34 with gcc 2.8.x/egcs.
> ghm... Can we track that one down? Yes, I know that 2.8.x/egcs sometimes
> generate wrong code, but we might want to help gcc/egcs team to discover
> bugs, so that new generation of compilers will be usefull :)

Its not the compiler thats the problem. Its the kernel code not stopping
the new gcc from some additional optimising we dont want.

> Also it's our only hope for gcc for 21264. Alan, did you see that beast
> on Linux Expo? Somebody told me it was presented there. I could only

Yes. Addmittedly they only had a 450Hz single CPU on demo, but it was
amazingly fast

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