Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268821AbTGIXtt (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Jul 2003 19:49:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268807AbTGIXsF (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Jul 2003 19:48:05 -0400 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:39048 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268732AbTGIXmd (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Jul 2003 19:42:33 -0400 Message-ID: <3F0CABCD.6020608@pobox.com> Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2003 19:57:01 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik Organization: none User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021213 Debian/1.2.1-2.bunk X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "J.A. Magallon" CC: Lista Linux-Kernel , Marcelo Tosatti Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.4.22-pre3: P3 and P4 for chekc_gcc References: <20030709223355.GA2604@werewolf.able.es> <3F0C9EE8.2050005@pobox.com> <20030709230754.GA18564@werewolf.able.es> In-Reply-To: <20030709230754.GA18564@werewolf.able.es> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 693 Lines: 21 J.A. Magallon wrote: > Just curious, what can go wrong ? Only if gcc has a bug when scheduling > insns for P4, for example, or if gcc spits some special that does not > work as supposed... Well, any number of things, but I admit it's mostly just general paranoia / conservatism on my part. In the past, on rare occasions, modification of the global CFLAGS or use of new gcc features has led to silent miscompilation of a few drivers. Jeff - 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/