From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@oss.sgi.com>
To: Pete Popov <ppopov@pacbell.net>
Cc: Keith Owens <kaos@melbourne.sgi.com>,
linux-mips@oss.sgi.com, linux-mips@fnet.fr
Subject: Re: Kernel compiler
Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2000 04:20:02 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20001104042002.A29373@bacchus.dhis.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20001104.3105000@zeus.mvista.com>; from ppopov@pacbell.net on Sat, Nov 04, 2000 at 03:10:50AM +0000
On Sat, Nov 04, 2000 at 03:10:50AM +0000, Pete Popov wrote:
> > Sigh, yes you're right as other have already pointed out on IRC ...
>
> > Gcc 2.7 is no longer being used for Linux/MIPS since a long time and I'd
> > simply bitbucket any bugreport related to it. Most people are using egcs
> > 1.0.3a for everything which is older than the required minimum version
> 1.1.2,
> > so we're in some trouble.
>
> > I've got reports regarding the 1.1.2 crosscompiler which say that it
> > misscompiles MIPS kernels, sigh ...
>
> What are the symptoms of a "miscompiled" kernel and how does one detect
> that (assuming that the kernel actually compiles successfully, but has
> problems running).
When trying to work on a serial terminal hooked up to an Indy it'll oops.
Question is if the compiler is buggy or if it's particular code generation
is just triggering a bug in the kernel code.
Ralf
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-11-04 3:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-11-03 21:19 Kernel compiler Ralf Baechle
2000-11-04 2:44 ` Keith Owens
2000-11-04 2:53 ` Ralf Baechle
2000-11-04 3:03 ` Keith M Wesolowski
2000-11-04 3:10 ` Pete Popov
2000-11-04 3:20 ` Ralf Baechle [this message]
2000-11-04 3:13 ` Keith Owens
2000-11-04 10:40 ` Alan Cox
2000-11-04 10:40 ` Alan Cox
2000-11-07 3:39 ` Ralf Baechle
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-10-25 14:31 kernel compiler Frontgate Lab
2001-10-25 15:08 ` David Weinehall
2001-10-25 15:28 ` Alan Cox
2001-10-25 15:27 ` Steve Lord
2001-10-25 15:46 ` Jakub Jelinek
2001-10-25 15:45 ` Steve Lord
2001-10-25 15:20 John Weber
2001-10-25 15:26 ` Axel
2001-10-25 15:45 ` Alan Cox
2001-10-25 16:45 ` Lost Logic
2001-10-25 17:16 ` Alan Cox
2001-10-25 22:00 ` J . A . Magallon
2001-10-25 22:13 ` J . A . Magallon
2001-10-26 9:18 ` Allan Sandfeld
2001-10-26 9:35 ` Jakub Jelinek
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