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From: prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc)
To: Joe Buck <Joe.Buck@synopsys.COM>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>,
	Ulrich Weigand <weigand@i1.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>,
	gcc@gcc.gnu.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	schwidefsky@de.ibm.com
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6 nanosecond time stamp weirdness breaks GCC build
Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2004 17:44:59 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3ad1vjp1a.fsf@multivac.cwru.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040401143908.B4619@synopsys.com> (Joe Buck's message of "Thu, 1 Apr 2004 14:39:08 -0800")

Joe Buck <Joe.Buck@synopsys.COM> wrote:
> Case 2: make falsely thinks that the .c is younger than the .o.  It
> recompiles the .c file, even though it didn't have to.  Harmless.

The OP explained how this can be harmful in the case of parallel
builds - the .o file is not updated atomically, so while one part of
the build is (unnecessarily) updating it, another part will fail to
find it.


paul

  reply	other threads:[~2004-04-01 22:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-04-01 19:28 Linux 2.6 nanosecond time stamp weirdness breaks GCC build Ulrich Weigand
2004-04-01 20:09 ` Andi Kleen
2004-04-01 20:39   ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2004-04-01 20:46     ` Andi Kleen
2004-04-01 21:01       ` Ulrich Weigand
2004-04-01 21:44         ` Andi Kleen
2004-04-01 22:39     ` Joe Buck
2004-04-01 22:44       ` Paul Jarc [this message]
2004-04-01 22:48       ` Ulrich Weigand
2004-04-01 23:58         ` Joe Buck
2004-04-02  0:13           ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2004-04-02  0:02   ` Jamie Lokier
2004-04-02  0:35   ` Paul Eggert
2004-04-02  1:14     ` Jamie Lokier
2004-04-02  7:57       ` James H. Cloos Jr.
2004-04-02  9:22       ` Paul Eggert
2004-04-02 16:23         ` Jamie Lokier
2004-04-02 20:45           ` Paul Eggert
2004-04-02 21:07             ` Jamie Lokier
2004-04-02 21:56               ` Paul Eggert
2004-04-03  4:59       ` Andrew Pimlott
2004-04-02  0:37   ` Andrew Morton
2004-06-07 16:03     ` Jörn Engel
2004-04-01 21:13 ` Janis Johnson
2004-04-01 21:41   ` Ulrich Weigand
2004-04-02  0:30   ` Alan Modra
2004-04-02  9:05 ` P
2004-04-02 17:27 ` Alexandre Oliva
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-04-01 20:51 Michael Elizabeth Chastain

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