Re: [revisited] Oops on boot with 2.4.0testX and GCC snapshots

["Rich Baum" <baumr1@coral.indstate.edu>]

On 1 Jan 2001, at 19:00, Andreas Franck wrote:

> Hello together,
> 
> after all the new year's celebrations, I have today taken the time to create 
> a small patch, based on Linus' idea, that will fix this problem in the 
> kernel, _without_ pessimizing any code or breaking with earlier compilers.
> 
> 2.4.0-prerelease is now running here for an hour compiled completely with 
> gcc-snapshot-2.97-20001222, without any noticed problems (so far).
> 
> Perhaps this could be included in the kernel to enable people to look for the 
> real caveats when compiling everything on the bleeding edge, or should we 
> wait for the GCC maintainers' call - I haven't had any reaction on my bug 
> report yet.
> 
> Along with it is a small fix for a typo in fs/umsdos/mangle.c, which was 
> detected by GCC's new preprocessor (#elseif instead of #else).
> 
> Greetings and a happy new year to everyone,
> Andreas
> 
> -- 
> ->>>----------------------- Andreas Franck --------<<<-
> ---<<<---- Andreas.Franck@post.rwth-aachen.de --->>>---
> ->>>---- Keep smiling! ----------------------------<<<-
> 

Thanks, this patch works for me.  I'm using gcc-2.97-20001225.
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