Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267528AbUIJQXT (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Sep 2004 12:23:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267543AbUIJQUQ (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Sep 2004 12:20:16 -0400 Received: from pegasus.allegientsystems.com ([208.251.178.236]:55822 "EHLO pegasus.lawaudit.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267528AbUIJQTi (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Sep 2004 12:19:38 -0400 Message-ID: <4141D415.6050705@optonline.net> Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 12:19:33 -0400 From: Nathan Bryant User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040806 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Alexander E. Patrakov" CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] Separate IRQ-stacks from 4K-stacks option References: <20040909232532.GA13572@taniwha.stupidest.org> <1094798428.2800.3.camel@laptop.fenrus.com> <1094807650.17041.3.camel@localhost.localdomain> <593560000.1094826651@[10.10.2.4]> In-Reply-To: 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: 1477 Lines: 36 Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: > Martin J. Bligh wrote: > >> --Alan Cox wrote (on Friday, September 10, >> 2004 10:14:11 +0100): >> >>> Its probably appropriate to drop gcc 2.x support at that point too since >>> it's the major cause of remaining problems >> >> >> What problems does it cause? 2.95.4 still seems to work fine for me. > > > The latest gcc2 on the ftp.gnu.org site is gcc 2.95.3. There is > officially no such thing as "gcc 2.95.4". Probably you are talking about > a patched version of some gcc2 cvs snapshot - that's what distros > provide. Please specify exactly what gcc version you are talking about. 2.95.4, if I remember correctly, contained fixes that went onto the gcc 2.95 branch after 2.95.3 was released. Some of the fixes were for Linux-2.2/2.4 and glibc2.2 compatibility. This compiler was distributed by Debian, I think. > > And there _is_ problem with gcc-2.95.3-compiled kernel: latest cvs glibc > testsuite segfaults in nptl tests. There are no failures with the kernel > identically configured, but compiled with gcc 3.3.4 or 3.4.1. So gcc > 2.95.3 as supplied by gnu.org miscompiles the kernel (futexes?). Either > fix the kernel or drop gcc2 support. > - 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/