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Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2008 10:03:53 -0700
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>
CC: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
x86 maintainers <x86@...nel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [git pull] x86 fixes
Adrian Bunk wrote:
>
> As far as I understood it it's a gas issue, and X86_GENERIC=y would
> therefore *not* fix the bug with gcc < 4.2 and affected binutils
> since we pass -mtune=i686 for gcc < 4.2 with X86_GENERIC=y.
>
> Anything I miss?
>
Well, for one thing, gcc doesn't actually pass the -mtune= option to
gas, it turns out.
But yes, "-Wa,-march=generic32" is really the proper fix.
-hpa
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