From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: Paravirt compile failure with gcc33 Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 10:41:37 -0800 Message-ID: <4B72FDE1.8060609@zytor.com> References: <4B72FD09.1020202@goop.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4B72FD09.1020202@goop.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge Cc: Jan Engelhardt , Jeremy Fitzhardinge , virtualization@lists.osdl.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List List-Id: virtualization@lists.linuxfoundation.org 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