* difference between compiling Kernel modules for linux 2.4 with gcc 3.4 rather than 3.3
@ 2012-10-19 17:52 Åke Forslund
2012-10-19 18:19 ` Jonathan Wakely
0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Åke Forslund @ 2012-10-19 17:52 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: gcc-help
Hello,
My question is about differences between gcc-3.3 and gcc-3.4 and is asked mostly because of curiosity since I've got a working solution.
We have an old x86-based product that uses RTL on Linux 2.4 and to build it we use a virtual Mandrake machine from way back. Earlier this week I got fed up with the old build system and started migrating to a more modern distro (Debian Squeeze). gcc-4.4 showed lots of warnings and in the end no object file was created.
I downgraded to gcc-3.4 and managed to get module compiled but for some reason modinfo doesn't output anything and when installing the module in our target system we get
uw.o: couldn't find the kernel version the module was compiled for
After testing switching to older version of libraries and what not to no avail I installed gcc-3.3 (the version used on the old build machine), and with after compiling with this version modinfo shows:
Filename: uw.o
kernel_version: 2.4.21
kernel_version: 2.4.21
kernel_version: 2.4.21
etc.
and the module works fine when installed.
What is different between the gcc-versions 3.3 and 3.4 that can cause this behavior or is there some quirky behavior of the Linux-headers?
Flags used for the project:
-D__KERNEL__ -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common \
-pipe -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i586 -DMODULE -fomit-frame-pointer \
-D__RTL__ -D_LOOSE_KERNEL_NAMES -O2 \
-I$(RTL_DIR)/linux/include \
-I$(RTL_DIR)/include \
-I$(RTL_DIR)/include/compat \
-I$(RTL_DIR)/include/posix \
Best regards
/ Åke Forslund
Åke Forslund
Lasermax Roll Systems
Tel: +46 (0) 372-25639
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* Re: difference between compiling Kernel modules for linux 2.4 with gcc 3.4 rather than 3.3
2012-10-19 17:52 difference between compiling Kernel modules for linux 2.4 with gcc 3.4 rather than 3.3 Åke Forslund
@ 2012-10-19 18:19 ` Jonathan Wakely
0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Jonathan Wakely @ 2012-10-19 18:19 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Åke Forslund; +Cc: gcc-help
On 19 October 2012 12:52, Åke Forslund wrote:
> Hello,
>
> My question is about differences between gcc-3.3 and gcc-3.4 and is asked mostly because of curiosity since I've got a working solution.
Quite a lot, see http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-3.4/changes.html for starters
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