Re: Kernel Bug in 2.4.35 when compiled gcc>=4.2.0 and -march=c3

[Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>]

On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 10:39:28AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Willy Tarreau wrote:
> > 
> > Just to enlighten me on the subject, could you please explain me
> > what is wrong in the code ? Granted I found it awful, but even on
> > the GCC-4.2 page where -fno-toplevel-reorder is explained, it is
> > said that asm statements can be instantiated between functions
> > blocks, which is exactly what is used here.
> > 
> 
> A stray semicolon:
> 
> __attribute__((regparm(0))) void call_do_IRQ(void); __asm__(...
> 
> ... is actually a prototype followed by a top-level asm statement
> (because of the semicolon), *not* a function with a single-statement
> body (which is itself uglier than hell, use braces please...)

I'm well aware of that, even in the example I wrote to reproduce the issue
and posted to gcc's bugzilla, I clearly have one function prototype and a
separate asm statement which contained a label with the function's name.

So in my opinion, the code above is not buggy. It's dirty (though I did
not find how to produce the equivalent in a different manner).

Willy