Re: Current KVM head crashes on startup

[Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>]

Amit Shah wrote:
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>> I don't see why it would change, unless you can destroy all copies of  
>> the compilers that fail with it.
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>
> I'd like to know which compilers fail to compile it

I don't recall, it probably depends on whether frame pointers are used 
or not as well.

>  -- maintaining
> specific code can introduce such regressions.
>   

That's a problem with assembly.  x86 and x86_64 are different 
instruction sets.

> qemu too doesn't have a dependency on gcc-3 anymore.
>   

We aren't forcing users to use gcc 4.

> Also, softwares do periodically bump up the minimum required versions of
> their dependencies.

Not for this kind of bug.

-- 
I have a truly marvellous patch that fixes the bug which this
signature is too narrow to contain.