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Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2008 14:30:24 -0400
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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To: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC 00/15] x86_64: Optimize percpu accesses
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Mike Travis wrote:
> Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
>> H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>>> Did the suspected linker bug issue ever get resolved?
>> I don't believe so.  I think Mike is getting very early crashes
>> depending on some combination of gcc, linker and kernel config.  Or
>> something.
> 
> Yes and unfortunately since SGI does not do it's own compilers any
> more (they were MIPS compilers), there's no one here that really
> understands the internals of the compile tools.
> 

A bummer, too, since that compiler lives on as the Pathscale compiler...

	-hpa

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