Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758054AbXJDOMe (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Oct 2007 10:12:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755906AbXJDOM1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Oct 2007 10:12:27 -0400 Received: from mailout.stusta.mhn.de ([141.84.69.5]:57291 "EHLO mailhub.stusta.mhn.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755844AbXJDOM0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Oct 2007 10:12:26 -0400 Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2007 16:12:51 +0200 From: Adrian Bunk To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Ingo Molnar , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Greg KH , Alexander Viro , Peter Zijlstra Subject: Re: [bug] crash when reading /proc/mounts (was: Re: Linux 2.6.23-rc9 and a heads-up for the 2.6.24 series..) Message-ID: <20071004141251.GG10852@stusta.de> References: <20071003084607.GC32218@elte.hu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1066 Lines: 31 On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 08:11:05AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: >... > and btw, there is no question what-so-ever about whether your compiler > might be doing a legal optimization - the compiler really is wrong, and is > total shit. You need to make a gcc bug-report. >... Ingo can't send a gcc bug-report since gcc 4.0 is no longer supported upstream and a 4.1.2 compiler was confirmed to work. Our only options are to either stop supporting the broken gcc versions as compiler for the kernel or to work around this compiler bug in the kernel. > Linus cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed - 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/