Keith Owens (kaos@melbourne.sgi.com) said: 
> The new __get_user code breaks older versions of gcc for IA64.
> gcc version 2.96-ia64-000717 snap 001117
> scsi_ioctl.c: In function `scsi_ioctl_send_command':
> scsi_ioctl.c:366: Internal compiler error in `rws_access_regno', at config/ia64/ia64.c:3671
> ia64-unknown-linux-gcc: Internal compiler error: program cpp got fatal signal 13
> 
> Time to upgrade gcc.  Workaround for old versions.

Oh, yeah, I noticed that. Here's what we used; it's similar.
It works fine in gcc3, so that's why I didn't report it earlier.

Bill