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From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: kerneloops.org: 2.6.26-rc possible regression in ext3
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 08:18:39 -0700
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Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 06:40:05AM -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
>> Adrian Bunk wrote:
>>> Expect a lot more of this to pop up in the future.
>>> Should we #error for gcc 4.3.1?
>> it/s better to find if the gcc guys made a testcase for this bug (they normally do) and
>> test based on that.
> 
> The gcc Bugzilla contains a testcase.
> 
> But how do you plan to integrate it into a kernel build?

we already have several of these.
Just look at scripts/gcc-x86_64-has-stack-protector.sh for an example of such a beast.