From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Zack Weinberg To: law@cygnus.com Cc: Gerald Pfeifer , egcs@egcs.cygnus.com Subject: Re: egcs and Linux kernels Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 11:05:00 -0000 Message-id: <199903101905.OAA28576@blastula.phys.columbia.edu> In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 10 Mar 1999 12:01:18 MST." < 29373.921092478@hurl.cygnus.com > References: <29373.921092478@hurl.cygnus.com> X-SW-Source: 1999-03/msg00392.html On Wed, 10 Mar 1999 12:01:18 -0700, Jeffrey A Law wrote: > > > - gcc 2.8.1 and egcs (all released versions) may silently generate bad > > code for the incorrect asm constructs in old kernels >And "gcc-2.7.2". There's nothing magical about gcc-2.7.2 that prevents it >losing due to the incorrect asms. I originally had a sentence in there saying "gcc-2.7.2 might generate bad code too, but it's been empirically verified to work" but I decided it was too confusing. zw From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Zack Weinberg To: law@cygnus.com Cc: Gerald Pfeifer , egcs@egcs.cygnus.com Subject: Re: egcs and Linux kernels Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 23:46:00 -0000 Message-ID: <199903101905.OAA28576@blastula.phys.columbia.edu> References: <29373.921092478@hurl.cygnus.com> X-SW-Source: 1999-03n/msg00395.html Message-ID: <19990331234600.8_T5xdoxe9gwC2DVAdWUfngkZ51o6uERDDGosIp5wzE@z> On Wed, 10 Mar 1999 12:01:18 -0700, Jeffrey A Law wrote: > > > - gcc 2.8.1 and egcs (all released versions) may silently generate bad > > code for the incorrect asm constructs in old kernels >And "gcc-2.7.2". There's nothing magical about gcc-2.7.2 that prevents it >losing due to the incorrect asms. I originally had a sentence in there saying "gcc-2.7.2 might generate bad code too, but it's been empirically verified to work" but I decided it was too confusing. zw