From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 29 Mar 2002 19:19:53 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 29 Mar 2002 19:19:43 -0500 Received: from holomorphy.com ([66.224.33.161]:26027 "EHLO holomorphy") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 29 Mar 2002 19:19:27 -0500 Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 16:18:59 -0800 From: William Lee Irwin III To: Pavel Machek Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.5.7 build breakage around blkpg.c Message-ID: <20020330001859.GA21206@holomorphy.com> Mail-Followup-To: William Lee Irwin III , Pavel Machek , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20020328035926.GA10467@holomorphy.com> <20020329223501.GC9974@elf.ucw.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Description: brief message Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.25i Organization: The Domain of Holomorphy Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org At some point in the past, I wrote: >> What hit me? On Fri, Mar 29, 2002 at 11:35:02PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: > gcc bug hit you. Workaround by adding volatile's to all local > variables in affected function. >>From some other responses I got it was made clear to me that this seems to do with generating an illegal instruction in response to high register pressure around inline assembly. Cheers, Bill