linux-kernel - Re: Paravirt compile failure with gcc33

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Message-ID: <4B72FDE1.8060609@zytor.com>
Date:	Wed, 10 Feb 2010 10:41:37 -0800
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
CC:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ozas.de>,
	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...source.com>,
	virtualization@...ts.osdl.org,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Paravirt compile failure with gcc33

On 02/10/2010 10:38 AM, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> On 02/10/2010 10:13 AM, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>> As I was compile-testing 2.6.33-rc with gcc-3.3,
>> binutils-2.19.51-10.26.4.x86_64, I observed a failure when
>> CONFIG_PARAVIRT is turned on:
>>    
> 
> Yeah, there's a gcc bug of some kind there, and its very hard to see how 
> to work around it.  When we last discussed this, I think we were close 
> to deciding to obsolete gcc 3.3.
> 
> HPA, do you remember?
> 

I don't, and the macros are tangled enough that I'm not actually sure
what the failure really is.

	-hpa
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