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From: Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [patch] 2.4.16 for pointers to __devexit functions
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On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 02:15:34AM -0800, David S. Miller wrote:
>    From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
>    Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2001 09:40:19 +0000
>    
>    Doesn't work at all, or just doesn't work with the (current) minimum
>    recommended compiler? We have to increase those minima at some point. 
> 
> The "golden" sparc64 compiler has been in use for years and is what
> has the weak problem, and updating it would be a major pain in the
> butt.

Note that gcc-2.96-RH (particularly 2.96-101) is not that far off from being
usable on sparc64 AFAIK (there is just one miscompilation in ext2_statfs
I'm aware of which I've submitted fix for review yesterday), of course
further testing may prove otherwise.

	Jakub
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