Re: Paravirt compile failure with gcc33

H. Peter Anvin
2010-02-10T18:45:11Z

On 02/10/2010 10:38 AM, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> On 02/10/2010 10:13 AM, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>> As I was compile-testing 2.6.33-rc with gcc-3.3,
>> binutils-2.19.51-10.26.4.x86_64, I observed a failure when
>> CONFIG_PARAVIRT is turned on:
>>
>
> Yeah, there's a gcc bug of some kind there, and its very hard to see how
> to work around it. When we last discussed this, I think we were close
> to deciding to obsolete gcc 3.3.
>
> HPA, do you remember?
>

I don't, and the macros are tangled enough that I'm not actually sure
what the failure really is.

-hpa