linux and EGCS PATCH

[Jeffrey A Law]

  In message < Pine.LNX.3.95.971205094911.18973C-100000@penguin.transmeta.com >you write:
  > I much prefer to just mark the "load_ldt()" asm as volatile, or as
  > changing memory. Both of those should correctly tell egcs that it
  > shouldn't move the ldt loading to before the ldt is set up completely. 
  > 
  > Good to see that egcs seems to be much more aggressive at these things, as
  > far as I can tell egcs did the right thing given the constraints it had.
BTW -- you should feel free to contact egcs@cygnus.com if/when you run
into problems -- being able to correctly compile Linux kernels is quite
important to us.

jeff