linux-kernel - Re: Linux 2.6.22 released

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Date:	Thu, 12 Jul 2007 02:33:42 +0400
From:	Serge Belyshev <belyshev@...ni.sinp.msu.ru>
To:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Martin Orr <martin@...tinorr.name>,
	Stefano Rivoir <s.rivoir@....it>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Matthias Klose <doko@...ian.org>
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.22 released

Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org> writes:

>> 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? 

No, debian's 4.2-20070707-1 is made from another branch (branches/ubuntu/gcc-4_2-branch)

CC'ing Debian GCC Maintainer, he will be interested.
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