Re: linux-next: ia64 allmodconfig

[Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>]

On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 04:11:32PM -0700, Luck, Tony wrote:
> > Not sure if this is helpful, but google pointed me at:
> > http://www.mail-archive.com/gcc-bugs@gcc.gnu.org/msg116574.html
> 
> That said "Fixed in 4.0.0" ... so I grabbed and built a newer
> gcc (4.2.4) and lo and behold the next-20080821 tag builds
> and boots just fine[*] with it.
> 
> Still need to figure out exactly what broke the build with
> a 3.x gcc to see if there is an easy workaround. Though 4.0.0
> was released over three years ago ... is it time to give up
> on the ancient 3.x technology?
> 
> -Tony
> 
> [*] If you ignore that the 4.2.4 compiler is about 15% slower
> than my trusty old 3.4.6 :-(

I have been doing a bisect using akpm's compiler to see if I can find
the individual commit.  Unfortunately, my laptop isn't the fastest build
machine in the world.

I did objdump the built-in.o and there is no such symbol in that file.
'strings' agrees.

Thanks,
Robin