Re: Gcc 4.2.2 broken for kernel builds

[Richard Sandiford <rsandifo@nildram.co.uk>]

"Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org> writes:
> On Sat, 13 Oct 2007, Richard Sandiford wrote:
>> FWIW, I've added some notes about the underlying cause.  I think this
>> could in principle happen with any gcc release.
>
>  It has been seen with GCC 3.4 and IIRC SDE has a hack in binutils to 
> disable this error as a workaround.  I guess the problem has always been 
> there since explicit relocs were added to GCC; it is just it hardly ever 
> happens.

Agreed.  And in options-speak, "explicit relocs" means both -mexplicit-relocs
and -msplit-addresses.  The associated gas warning was disabled in the
initial revision of sourceware binutils:

1.1          (rth      03-May-99): #if 0 /* GCC code motion plus incomplete dead code elimination
1.1          (rth      03-May-99):       can leave a %hi without a %lo.  */
1.1          (rth      03-May-99):        if (pass == 1)
1.1          (rth      03-May-99):          as_warn_where (l->fixp->fx_file, l->fixp->fx_line,
1.1          (rth      03-May-99):                         _("Unmatched %%hi reloc"));
1.1          (rth      03-May-99): #endif

so I think this problem has been seen with GCC 2 as well as 3 and 4.

Richard