Re: Linux 2.4.3-ac12

Philip Blundell
2001-04-22T13:51:36Z

>There are no gcc 2.97 snapshots that compile the kernel correctly because
>they have the broken bitfield packing ABI change.

Oh right. I didn't know about that particular nicety.

>My belief however is that several million people have gcc 2.96-69+, about 50
>are likely to have random cvs snapshots and none of them are going to build
>kernels with them anyway, as they wont work __builtin_expect or otherwise.

Fair enough.

p.