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Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2001 01:52:25 -0500
From: Matt Yourst <yourst@mit.edu>
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Subject: Re: Compiling 2.4.1: undefined reference to `__buggy_fxsr_alignment'
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I used regular gcc 2.95.2 and it compiled and linked without problems.
Thanks.

Shawn Starr wrote:
> 
> pgcc borks 2.4.1 kernel and prereleases (sadly I found this out the same
> way).
> 
> Shawn.
> Matt Yourst wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > I just tried to compile 2.4.1 and I'm getting the error "undefined
> > reference to `__buggy_fxsr_alignment'" when trying to do the final
> > link. It looks like this check was something 2.4.1 added to
> > include/asm-i386/bugs.h to fail the kernel build if part of the thread
> > structure wasn't aligned on a 16-byte boundary (which seems to make
> > sense given FXSR's alignment requirements.) When was this check added?
> > I assumed it was a bug in 2.4.0 that was just recently discovered, but
> > I didn't see anything in the ChangeLog to that effect.
>...

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