> Until you can submit a grievance with a kernel compiled with egcs
> and have people listen to you, stick with gcc-2.7.2.3. (:
It has worked for me... I complained about several problems, posted a patch
for another. They got fixed, and now 2.2.0-pre6 compiled fine and works for
me (i586/UP, binutils-2.9.1.0.19a)
> linux-2.1 & -2.2 have been more egcs "safe" and egcs tends to work
> well for a bunch of people, but it isn't guaranteed. When people find
> a problem (which is problem #1: not all problems may have been found)
> and get past the finger-pointing stage (problem #2), then they've got
> to get a patch past Linus that fixes it in an acceptable way (problem
> #3).
Try Alan Cox, he has been quite receptive to egcs-related fixes. He fed
them to Linus, who eventually took them up.
If (1) isn't resolved (==> more testing under more situations), (3) won't
ever happen. (2) seems to be a thing of the past.
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