Re: [PATCH] check_gcc for i386

From: Andre Tomt (andre_at_tomt.net)
Date: 08/31/03

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To: "J.A. Magallon" <jamagallon@able.es>

    J.A. Magallon wrote:

    > On 08.30, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
    >
    >>Hello,
    >>
    >>Here goes -pre2. It contains an USB update, PPC merge, m68k merge, IDE
    >>changes from Alan, network drivers update from Jeff, amongst other fixes
    >>and updates.
    >>
    >
    >
    > New try...
    > Plz, could you include this on your queue ?

    This can be a potentially harmful change, suddenly exposing compiler
    bugs and other compiler related problems in the kernel code we have not
    yet seen. On one side, these bugs _should_ get fixed, on the other side,
    we might not find them all before release. Also, the pentium3 and
    pentium4 options have been known to compile for example bad SSE code in
    some gcc versions, something that's giving me a feeling those gcc
    options may be a little immature to use for a stable kernel series.

    In my opinion, of course. 

    -- 
Cheers,
André Tomt
andre@tomt.net
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