Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 12 Mar 2003 10:24:45 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 12 Mar 2003 10:24:45 -0500 Received: from divine.city.tvnet.hu ([195.38.100.154]:25656 "EHLO divine.city.tvnet.hu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 12 Mar 2003 10:24:43 -0500 Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 16:28:21 +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: 1582 Lines: 42 On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, Szakacsits Szabolcs wrote: > 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... Some data points, in time order. SuSE 8.0 2.95.3-216 no bug yet [1] Debian 3.0 2.95.4-14 no bug yet [1] Red Hat 7.[23] 2.96-81 no bug yet [2,3] Red Hat 7.[23] 2.96-98 bug introduced [2,3] Mandrake 8.1 2.96-0.62mdk bug introduced [4] Red Hat 7.[23] 2.96-103 bug fixed [2,3] SuSE 8.0 3.0.4 (SuSE) bug fixed [1] Mandrake 9.1 3.2.2-2mdk bug fixed [1] [1] I checked [2] http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=57760 [3] https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2002-055.html [4] http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=432 So it's not so serious as we first thought. Probably the "halt build if broken compiler detected" approach is enough. 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/