linux-kernel - Re: Kernel Bug in 2.4.35 when compiled gcc>=4.2.0 and -march=c3

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Date:	Tue, 7 Aug 2007 07:04:20 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Axel Reinhold <axel@...akout.de>
To:	Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>
CC:	Segher Boessenkool <segher@...nel.crashing.org>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Axel Reinhold <axel@...akout.de>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Kernel Bug in 2.4.35 when compiled gcc>=4.2.0 and
 -march=c3

According to Willy Tarreau:
> > >Well, top-level assembly is usually nasty.  Setting the section in the
> > >assembly statement as you said is probably the only thing you *can* do.
> > 

I do not understand the details of the discussion, but isn't the
fact, that there is more than one way for the compiler to produce
"correct" code of the nasty statements, also a "timebomb" for
other projects - especially for Linux 2.6?

Axel
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