From: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] spinlock.h cleanup
Date: 29 Jul 2002 18:49:48 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1027993788.1617.411.camel@sinai> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0207291845470.945-100000@home.transmeta.com>
On Mon, 2002-07-29 at 18:46, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Check that again. The old check was for "(__GNUC__ > 2)", ie it would only
> trigger for gcc-3 and up.
Err, right.
> > If I recall correctly, the fix was for older egcs compilers.
>
> I've got this memory of fairly recent gcc's messing up on sparc, for
> example.
The problem is indeed fixed in 2.95... the problem is not with those
compilers on sparc but that sparc64 uses an old compiler (DaveM
recommends 2.91.66 for sparc64).
Consequently, I sent you a rediff of the patch - this time without
removing the compiler workaround. It should be acceptable.
Robert Love
prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-07-30 1:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-07-30 0:01 [PATCH] spinlock.h cleanup Robert Love
2002-07-30 0:26 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-07-30 0:30 ` Robert Love
2002-07-30 0:33 ` Robert Love
2002-07-30 1:06 ` Robert Love
2002-07-30 2:19 ` David S. Miller
2002-07-30 1:46 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-07-30 1:48 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2002-07-30 1:49 ` Robert Love [this message]
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