Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 11 Mar 2003 11:27:17 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 11 Mar 2003 11:27:17 -0500 Received: from divine.city.tvnet.hu ([195.38.100.154]:32281 "EHLO divine.city.tvnet.hu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 11 Mar 2003 11:27:16 -0500 Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 17:29:46 +0100 (MET) From: Szakacsits Szabolcs To: Alan Cox cc: "Randy.Dunlap" , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: 2.5.63 accesses below %esp (was: Re: ntfs OOPS (2.5.63)) In-Reply-To: <1047402060.19262.33.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 944 Lines: 24 On 11 Mar 2003, Alan Cox wrote: > On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 07:22, Szakacsits Szabolcs wrote: > > The question is if we want to support the buggy 2.9[56] compilers or > > not. I checked Red Hat 7.3 and the latest errata gcc fixes this issue, > > the generated code is ok. But your complier didn't and probably many > > more out there don't. > > I don't think gcc 2.96 had that problem. Randy's compliler is 2.96 and it forgot to do a 'sub $0xc,%esp'. See yourself all the data at http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=432 Red Hat had this bug also for 1-1.5 year (there is a bugzilla entry submitted by a Parasoft employee, the bug also screw[s|ed] user space apps, e.g. by signal handling). Szaka - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/