egcs build 199808xx breaks kernel. (that annoying errno=111)

[Horst von Brand]

sang@mocha.dyn.ml.org said:
> I am aware of that there WAS a bug in arch/i386/kernel/ioport.c and
> fixed in 2.0.32+.  As of now, egcs-1.0.3a compiles and runs 2.0.35
> fine (under a casual linux user environment - sparse heavy compilation).
> then why does egcs-19980803 breaks this?  is it again more aggressive
> optimization?  

The optimizations in egcs got much more agressive in the meanwhile. Note
that compiling 2.0.x kernels with anything else than gcc-2.7.2.x is _not_
supported, nobody will help you if it breaks: It's just too much work, work
that doesn't make any sense now that linux-2.2 is at most a decade away ;-)
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