egcs-19990314 miscompiles linux kernel on i586, SPARC

[Arvind Sankar]

On Thu, Mar 25, 1999 at 01:05:12AM -0700, Jeffrey A Law wrote:
> 
>   In message < 199903250755.SAA26076@zipper.zip.com.au >you write:
> 
>   > Weird. I've not had a single crash from using egcs-1.1.1 and 1.1.2 on the
>   > kernel. I use -O2 -march=pentiumpro on it and I've just tried it without
>   > the -fno-strength-reduce and it's working just fine. Not an oops/crash/
>   > wheeze  > in sight.
>   > 
>   > Where would the problems be? Admittedly I'm not using any ethernet devices
>   > yet...
> It locks up for me when trying to perform some network stuff during system
> startup.  Possibly when mounting some NFS partitions, I don't really remember
> exactly when the lockup happens at the moment.
> 
> jeff

I tried with 19990321, and it locks up during nfs startup, when it tries to
run rpc.mountd. 19990314 locked with an Out of memory just after the Now booting
kernel..

1.1.2 seems to work fine.

-- arvind