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Re: linux and EGCS PATCH
- To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at transmeta dot com>
- Subject: Re: linux and EGCS PATCH
- From: Jeffrey A Law <law at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Sat, 06 Dec 1997 09:44:14 -0700
- cc: "Martin.Dalecki" <dalecki at u23 dot num dot math dot uni-goettingen dot de>, egcs at cygnus dot com, linux kernel <linux-kernel at vger dot rutgers dot edu>
- Reply-To: law at cygnus dot com
In message <Pine.LNX.3.95.971205094911.18973C-100000@penguin.transmeta.com>you write:
> I much prefer to just mark the "load_ldt()" asm as volatile, or as
> changing memory. Both of those should correctly tell egcs that it
> shouldn't move the ldt loading to before the ldt is set up completely.
>
> Good to see that egcs seems to be much more aggressive at these things, as
> far as I can tell egcs did the right thing given the constraints it had.
BTW -- you should feel free to contact egcs@cygnus.com if/when you run
into problems -- being able to correctly compile Linux kernels is quite
important to us.
jeff