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Re: kernel-2.2.1-undefined references.



Opps, cc to egcs was botched.

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To: torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds)
cc: submit-linux-egcs@transmeta.com
Subject: Re: kernel-2.2.1-undefined references. 
Reply-To: law@cygnus.com
In-reply-to: Your message of 12 Feb 1999 19:40:35 MST.
             <7a203j$9cf$1@palladium.transmeta.com> 
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 12:48:32 -0700
Message-ID: <9186.918848912@hurl.cygnus.com>
From: Jeffrey A Law <law@hurl.cygnus.com>


  In message <7a203j$9cf$1@palladium.transmeta.com>you write:
  > In article <19990212031118.4271.qmail@deer>,  <craig@jcb-sc.com> wrote:
  > >
  > >The buglet in gcc has, I gather, already been fixed.
  > 
  > Yes. 
  > 
  > The sad part is that the bug was fixed several months ago. It was just
  > re-introduced _again_ last week.
No.  This is not what happened.  Please don't state this as a fact since you
do not know the facts.  If you would like to know the facts, then ask.

  > It's not at all buggy, it just assumes that the compiler does something
  > reasonable. 
No.  ANy code which depends on a function being inlined for correctness
is broken.  That's it, there's no if and's or but's about it.  The linux
kernel depends on certain functions being inlined and is therefore broken.

jeff

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