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Re: pre egcs-1.1 testing and Linux 2.1.x
- To: "David S. Miller" <davem at dm dot cobaltmicro dot com>
- Subject: Re: pre egcs-1.1 testing and Linux 2.1.x
- From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at transmeta dot com>
- Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1998 11:42:18 -0700 (PDT)
- cc: dkelson at inconnect dot com, linux-kernel at vger dot rutgers dot edu, egcs at cygnus dot com
On Sun, 23 Aug 1998, David S. Miller wrote:
>
> However, I will continue to ignore developers who don't say "we
> will fix it eventually", but instead say "let's remove the feature,
> we'll never be able to fix it".
>
> And the egcs team has not said the latter. But they will turn the
> feature off until such time as the fix is made, since it generates
> incorrect code.
People I trust tell me that the problem can occur even without regparm,
it's just that regparm is able to trigger the _real_ bug much more easily.
As such, disabling the feature pretty much amounts to hiding your head in
the sand.
Oh, well.
Linus