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Message-Id: <200805021248.56797.alistair@devzero.co.uk>
Date:	Fri, 2 May 2008 12:48:55 +0100
From:	Alistair John Strachan <alistair@...zero.co.uk>
To:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
Cc:	Chris Knadle <Chris.Knadle@...edump.us>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>, venkatesh.pallipadi@...el.com,
	davem@...emloft.net, trini@...nel.crashing.org, mingo@...e.hu,
	tglx@...utronix.de, hpa@...or.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	suresh.b.siddha@...el.com,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: huge gcc 4.1.{0,1} __weak problem

On Friday 02 May 2008 11:43:48 Sam Ravnborg wrote:
[snip]
> > > > It's __GNUC_PATCHLEVEL__, I believe.
> > > >
> > > > So yes, we can distinguish 4.1.2 (good, and very common) from
> > > > 4.1.{0,1} (bad, and rather uncommon).
> > > > And yes, considering that 4.1.1 (and even more so 4.1.0) should be
> > > > rare to begin with, I think it's better to just not support it.
> > > >
> > > >			Linus
> > >
> > >    Unfortunately Debian Stable (i.e. Etch), which is relatively popular
> > > for server use, is still using 4.1.1  :-(  (The current gcc package is
> > > gcc-4.1.1-21)
> > >
> > >    I have not looked to see if Debian Stable's gcc-4.1.1-21 has been
> > > patched for the currently discussed __weak bug.
> >
> > I checked and it has been patched in 4.1.1-21. This would make checking
> > for 4.1.1 via __GNUC_PATCHLEVEL__ potentially invalid, as patched distro
> > compilers may (and in this case do) have this fixed.
>
> Is it possible to cook up a small sample file we could build as part
> of the kernel build. If it fails => error out.
> If someone comes up with the code I shall try to integrate it
> in the build system.

The GCC PR has a test case for this regression which might be usable.

http://gcc.gnu.org/viewcvs/branches/gcc-4_1-branch/gcc/testsuite/gcc.dg/tree-ssa/pr27781.c?view=markup&pathrev=114852

-- 
Cheers,
Alistair.

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