From: Jeffrey A Law <law@cygnus.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Cc: "Martin.Dalecki" <dalecki@u23.num.math.uni-goettingen.de>,
egcs@cygnus.com, linux kernel <linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu>
Subject: Re: linux and EGCS PATCH
Date: Sat, 06 Dec 1997 08:41:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <28148.881426654@hurl.cygnus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.971205094911.18973C-100000@penguin.transmeta.com>
In message < Pine.LNX.3.95.971205094911.18973C-100000@penguin.transmeta.com >you write:
> I much prefer to just mark the "load_ldt()" asm as volatile, or as
> changing memory. Both of those should correctly tell egcs that it
> shouldn't move the ldt loading to before the ldt is set up completely.
>
> Good to see that egcs seems to be much more aggressive at these things, as
> far as I can tell egcs did the right thing given the constraints it had.
BTW -- you should feel free to contact egcs@cygnus.com if/when you run
into problems -- being able to correctly compile Linux kernels is quite
important to us.
jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1997-12-06 8:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-12-05 1:17 Martin.Dalecki
1997-12-05 10:44 ` Linus Torvalds
1997-12-06 8:41 ` Jeffrey A Law [this message]
1997-12-10 8:57 ` Horst von Brand
1997-12-10 10:58 ` Paul Koning
1997-12-10 10:58 ` Linus Torvalds
1997-12-11 16:33 Daniel Egger
1997-12-12 10:18 ` linux kernel account
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