linux-kernel - Re: Linux 2.6.22 released

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Message-ID: <20070711221626.GA25510@one.firstfloor.org>
Date:	Thu, 12 Jul 2007 00:16:26 +0200
From:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Martin Orr <martin@...tinorr.name>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	Stefano Rivoir <s.rivoir@....it>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.22 released

> I don't think this is worth even trying to fix. This is terminal compiler 
> breakage. Make a bug-report to the gcc people, the inline asm stuff has 
> been totally buggered by that compiler version.
> 
> If it mis-compiled that part, it probably miscompiled a lot of other 
> things too.

I just checked with today's gcc 4.2 (070711) freshly compiled and from a quick inspection 
the code looks correct again. So perhaps it has been already fixed? 

http://firstfloor.org/~andi/signal.s-070711

Result also boots 

Unfortunately the date is not checkable in gcc so we can't easily add #errors.

-Andi
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