Re: 2.4.5 and gcc v3 final

[Anatoly Ivanov <avi@levi.spb.ru>]

Hi,

Solution is simple:
change line 540 from "extern struct timeval xtime;"
to "extern volatile struct timeval xtime;"
and have fun :)

---
avi

Kissandrakis S. George wrote:

> Hello
> I suppose that you allready know it
> I have installed gcc v3 released Jun 18 and i tried to compile the
> kernel and i got
> these errors
> 
> in make dep i got several warnings that look like this
> 
> /usr/src/linux-2.4.5/include/asm/checksum.h:161:17: warning: multi-line
> string literals are deprecated
> 
> but finally passed..
> 
> in make bzImage i got
> 
> timer.c:35: conflicting types for `xtime'
> /usr/src/linux-2.4.5/include/linux/sched.h:540: previous declaration of
> `xtime'
> 
> and compilation stops
> if i remove the decleration of xtime in sched.h (remove the 540 line)
> the compile
> will go on and some compiles after...
> 
> time.c: In function `do_normal_gettime':
> time.c:41: `xtime' undeclared (first use in this function)
> 
> and some other errors
> if in time.c include the line 540 from sched.h (the xtime) the
> compilation will go on
> until the same error on another file
> i include again the line 540 from sched.h the compilation goes on etc
> etc and after lots
> of errors finally i got bzImage
> 
> I didnt test bzImage if it boots 
> 
> with gcc v2.x the same kernel and kernel config it compiles,Is it a
> kernel bug, a gcc
> bug or something else (bad installation of gcc, my mistake etc etc)? 
> 
> Best Regards
> 
> 
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