From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
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
Message-id: <28148.881426654@hurl.cygnus.com>
References: <Pine.LNX.3.95.971205094911.18973C-100000@penguin.transmeta.com>
X-SW-Source: 1997-12/msg00359.html

  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