From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Robin Holt Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 23:32:02 +0000 Subject: Re: linux-next: ia64 allmodconfig Message-Id: <20080821233202.GF8051@sgi.com> List-Id: References: <20080820233526.14c44ea6.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20080820233526.14c44ea6.akpm@linux-foundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org 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