From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: by oss.sgi.com id ; Fri, 3 Nov 2000 19:20:35 -0800 Received: from u-120.karlsruhe.ipdial.viaginterkom.de ([62.180.10.120]:15620 "EHLO u-120.karlsruhe.ipdial.viaginterkom.de") by oss.sgi.com with ESMTP id ; Fri, 3 Nov 2000 19:20:24 -0800 Received: (ralf@lappi) by lappi.waldorf-gmbh.de id ; Sat, 4 Nov 2000 04:20:02 +0100 Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2000 04:20:02 +0100 From: Ralf Baechle To: Pete Popov Cc: Keith Owens , linux-mips@oss.sgi.com, linux-mips@fnet.fr Subject: Re: Kernel compiler Message-ID: <20001104042002.A29373@bacchus.dhis.org> References: <20001103221926.A26082@bacchus.dhis.org> <5029.973305862@ocs3.ocs-net> <20001104035326.A29005@bacchus.dhis.org> <20001104.3105000@zeus.mvista.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20001104.3105000@zeus.mvista.com>; from ppopov@pacbell.net on Sat, Nov 04, 2000 at 03:10:50AM +0000 X-Accept-Language: de,en,fr Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Return-Path: X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips-outgoing 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