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Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 18:46:40 -0700 (PDT)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
To: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
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On 29 Jul 2002, Robert Love wrote:
>
> I hope so, we only check for gcc < 2.0.

Check that again. The old check was for "(__GNUC__ > 2)", ie it would only
trigger for gcc-3 and up.

> If I recall correctly, the fix was for older egcs compilers.

I've got this memory of fairly recent gcc's messing up on sparc, for
example.

		Linus

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