Re: Can't compile 2.4.3 with agcc

[Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>]

On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 11:54:10PM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Andrzej Krzysztofowicz wrote:
> > -             extern void __buggy_fxsr_alignment(void);
> > -             __buggy_fxsr_alignment();
> > +             extern void __BUG__task_struct__data_is_not_properly_alligned__Probably_your_compiler_is_buggy(void);
> > +             __BUG__task_struct__data_is_not_properly_alligned__Probably_your_compiler_is_buggy();
> 
> 1. People would probably still report that to l-k instead of reading it.
> 2. It's still not guaranteed to compile, even with correct compilers.
> 
> Maybe you can do a post-processing step - a sanity check which is run
> _after_ build. But the runtime check is sufficient. People won't randomly
> start compiling kernels for production boxen with silly compilers, then
> booting them unattended. And if they do, they deserve the downtime.

grep '__BUG__' System.map | cut -d\  -f3

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