egcs 971105/14 and linux 2.1.64 kernel compile

Jeffrey A Law law@cygnus.com
Sun Nov 16 13:14:00 GMT 1997


  In message < 199711162045.MAA24426@zoogx.zoology.washington.edu >you write:
  > 
  > egcs on my 486 gives the following error whilst attempting to compile
  > 2.1.64. 
  > 
  > gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes
  > -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -m486 -DCPU=486 -c -o process.o
  > process.c process.c: 
  > In function `flush_thread': 
  > process.c:469: fixed or forbidden register was spilled.  This may be
  > due to a compiler bug or to impossible asm statements or clauses.
Can you add -save-temps to that line and mail us the resuling process.i
file?
jeff



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