From: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>
To: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@user.it.uu.se>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: gcc-3.4.0 patches for 2.4.27?
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 11:14:02 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040428141402.GA14403@logos.cnet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <16527.45935.480630.490196@alkaid.it.uu.se>
On Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 03:36:47PM +0200, Mikael Pettersson wrote:
> Marcelo,
>
> Will you accept patches allowing gcc-3.4.0 to compile
> 2.4.27 or not? I can understand if you want to be
> conservative and not change _anything_ if you don't have to.
>
> gcc-3.4.0 errors out in 2.4.27-pre1 due to (a) inconsistent
> FASTCALL declarations, (b) uninlinable inlines, and (c)
> -funit-at-a-time which seems to leave unresolved calls to
> strcpy() around [gcc optimises sprintf "%s" to strcpy()].
> There are also tons of warnings due to cast-as-lvalue
> and "+m" asm() constraints.
>
> I currently have a 40KB+ patch for 2.4.27-pre1 which works
> for me on i386, UP and SMP. The changes are all backports
> from 2.6. I'll do x86_64 and ppc(32) in a few days.
>
> http://www.csd.uu.se/~mikpe/linux/patches/2.4/patch-gcc340-fixes-2.4.27-pre1
> is the location of the current version.
Hi Mikael,
The patch looks alright for me, but I better see reviews from
other people.
Since v2.4 is in feature freeze, I have a reason not to apply it.
I'm not sure. Lets wait a while and see.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-04-28 14:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-04-28 13:36 gcc-3.4.0 patches for 2.4.27? Mikael Pettersson
2004-04-28 14:14 ` Marcelo Tosatti [this message]
2004-05-01 14:00 ` Denis Vlasenko
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