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From: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
To: "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@novell.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: i386 entry.S problems
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 12:58:57 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3acvcf05q.fsf@averell.firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2J0sK-6Ot-5@gated-at.bofh.it> (Jan Beulich's message of "Mon, 27 Sep 2004 12:00:14 +0200")

"Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@novell.com> writes:
>
> I don't think so. Otherwise, why would arch/i386/Makefile specifically
> deal with this situation?

It shouldn't be enabled for 2.95, there are known miscompilations
caused by it there.  The i386 Makefile enforces this:

cflags-$(CONFIG_REGPARM) 	+= $(shell if [ $(GCC_VERSION) -ge 0300 ] ; then echo "-mregparm=3"; fi ;)

However this points to a bug in that when someone sets this
on 2.95 the assembly functions who check for CONFIG_REGPARM
explicitely will be subtly miscompiled. Perhaps having 
a #error for this case would be better, although that
would break allyesconfig on prehistoric compilers. Maybe 
it needs to be special cased in autoconf.h

-Andi


       reply	other threads:[~2004-09-27 10:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <2J0sK-6Ot-5@gated-at.bofh.it>
2004-09-27 10:58 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2004-09-27 11:19 i386 entry.S problems Jan Beulich
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2004-09-27  9:50 Jan Beulich
     [not found] <s157d11c.077@emea1-mh.id2.novell.com>
2004-09-27  9:00 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-09-27  7:40 Jan Beulich
2004-09-27  7:37 Jan Beulich
     [not found] <2HZ5Q-3MU-17@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found] ` <2HZSa-4nZ-63@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]   ` <2IFew-HK-9@gated-at.bofh.it>
2004-09-26 11:38     ` Andi Kleen
2004-09-24 15:25 Jan Beulich
2004-09-24 14:12 Jan Beulich
2004-09-24 14:57 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-09-24 15:36   ` Alan Cox
2004-09-26 11:13   ` Ingo Molnar
2004-09-24 19:12 ` Christoph Hellwig

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