[roberts@tsasa.lanl.gov: Problem w/egcs1.1b and XFCom_3DLabs server]

[Doug Roberts]

Jeff: 

The information in your FAQ is out of date. Linux 2.0.30+ kernels have compiled 
correctly with gcc versions 2.8.0 and 2.8.1, and release 1.0.3a of egcs. You should
probably update the FAQ to reflect this. The problems referred to below were fixed
in kernel version 2.0.32. The current 2.0 Linux kernel version is 2.0.35.

--Doug

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Problems building Linux kernels

If you have tried to build a 2.0.xx kernel for Intel machines with
EGCS, then you are on your own. The 2.0.xx kernels are to be built
only with gcc-2.7.2. They use certain asm constructs which are
incorrect, but (by accident) happen to work with gcc-2.7.2. If you
insist on building 2.0.xx kernels with egcs, you may be interested in
this patch which fixes some (all?) of the asm problems.