Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 12 Mar 2003 04:14:14 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 12 Mar 2003 04:14:14 -0500 Received: from divine.city.tvnet.hu ([195.38.100.154]:17455 "EHLO divine.city.tvnet.hu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 12 Mar 2003 04:14:13 -0500 Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 10:17:40 +0100 (MET) From: Szakacsits Szabolcs To: Richard Henderson cc: Linus Torvalds , Subject: Re: 2.5.63 accesses below %esp (was: Re: ntfs OOPS (2.5.63)) In-Reply-To: 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: 1554 Lines: 47 On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, Szakacsits Szabolcs wrote: > On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, Richard Henderson wrote: > > > This bug is in most 2.95, 2.96 and according to Alan in 3.0 and early > > > 3.1) and people would just start "working around" it by commenting out > > > the check for getting something to work quickly then forgetting about > > > the issue completely. > > > > The bug report I can find, > > > > http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2001-06/msg00746.html > > > > was fixed before gcc 3.0.0 was released. So if this is > > a different bug... > > Could be also the classical "copy-paste [slightly change one occasion] > then fix one occasion" type of bug? I've never looked the quality of > the gcc source. I really don't know. Sorry, looks "a bit" more complex. And quoting you "Confirmed. I'd classify this as a fairly serious bug. I am currently testing the following fix." I can confirm that Red Hat 7.3 latest gcc errata fixes (issued 13 months later) indeed generates correct code for at least __ntfs_init_inode() with Randy's .config file. The compiler version, % gcc --version 2.96 Oops, not to talkative considering how heavily patched ... % rpm -qf =gcc gcc-2.96-113 gcc generated code from Mandrake 9.1 RC2 is also ok. % gcc --version gcc (GCC) 3.2.2 (Mandrake Linux 9.1 3.2.2-2mdk) 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/