Re: [2.6 patch] remove support for gcc < 3.2

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>]

On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 08:54:47AM +0200, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:
>...
> Current GCC from CVS (plus minor configury patches) seems to work. We
> had -fno-unit-at-a-time missing in our arch Makefile which hides a bug
> in kernel's sources.
> 
> I guess that if you remove -fno-unit-at-a-time from i386 and use a
> current GCC, you'll run into that fun, too.

What bug exactly?

I'm sometimes using kernels compiled with gcc 4.0 and without 
-fno-unit-at-a-time and except for the kernel image being smaller I 
haven't noticed any difference. Besides this, all architectures except 
i386 and um are not disabling unit-at-a-time.

There are a few parts of the kernel that might still have stack problems 
with unit-at-a-time, but I assume that's not what you are talking about?

> MfG, JBG
>...

cu
Adrian

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