From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Fri, 05 Mar 2004 15:22:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: from p508B7DDE.dip.t-dialin.net ([IPv6:::ffff:80.139.125.222]:58693 "EHLO mail.linux-mips.net") by linux-mips.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 5 Mar 2004 15:22:08 +0000 Received: from fluff.linux-mips.net (fluff.linux-mips.net [127.0.0.1]) by mail.linux-mips.net (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i25FM7ex021571 for ; Fri, 5 Mar 2004 16:22:07 +0100 Received: (from ralf@localhost) by fluff.linux-mips.net (8.12.8/8.12.8/Submit) id i25FM7sS021570 for linux-mips@linux-mips.org; Fri, 5 Mar 2004 16:22:07 +0100 Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 16:22:07 +0100 From: Ralf Baechle To: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Subject: gcc 3.2.0 bug causes kernel failure Message-ID: <20040305152206.GA21264@linux-mips.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 4484 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: ralf@linux-mips.org Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips Me and Steven have tracked down a LTP failure in the capget tests to a bug in gcc 3.2.0. Reducing optimization to just -O seems to solve the problem. To this point we've found the capget LTP problem with 2.4 kernel built with 3.2.0; 2.6.3 built with 2.95.4 seems to be ok. We've also only tested 32-bit kernels. We'de be interested in test results from other configurations, in particular 2.4 kernels built by later 3.2.x compiler revisions would be of interest. Ralf