linux-kernel - Re: Serial related oops

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Date:	Thu, 22 Feb 2007 15:07:18 +0000
From:	Jose Goncalves <jose.goncalves@...v.pt>
To:	"Michael K. Edwards" <medwards.linux@...il.com>,
	Frederik Deweerdt <deweerdt@...e.fr>,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Serial related oops

Russell King wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 04:34:15PM -0800, Michael K. Edwards wrote:
>   
>> Are you using an unpatched gcc 4.1.1?  Its optimizer did nasty things
>> to us, at least on an ARM target ...
>>     
>
> That's ruled out.  Please think about it for a moment - serial_in()
> managed to work correctly most of the time, and then spontaneously
> changes its well-defined ABI behaviour in a way that analysis of the
> asm doesn't allow it to.
>   

I'm using gcc 3.4.6.
But I agree with Russell, if it was such a problem it would hit on the
first iteration of my application and not after 1 day of executing the
same piece of code...

Regards,
José Gonçalves

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