New problems with gcc-2.8.0 based code - NOW FIXED!

[Manfred Hollstein]

On Fri, 26 December 1997, 15:11:14, manfred@s-direktnet.de wrote:

 > There are other problems since the merge with gcc-2.8.0, though.
 > 
 > Up to egcs-1.0  (incl. egcs-971201) I've  been able to  built my Linux
 > kernel  with  `-O6 -march=pentium  -mcpu=pentium  -fomit-frame-pointer
 > -malign-loops=0      -malign-jumps=0      -malign-functions=0'   _and_
 > `-funroll-all-loops'!
 > 
 > Newer   snapshots and  gcc-2.8.0-971213 don't  allow  me   to do that;
 > `-funroll-all-loops' causes   `isapnp'  and  `clock'  to   fail   with
 > `segmentation  violations'.  Omitting   `-funroll-all-loops' helps for
 > the most current 2.1.7x kernels, but 2.0.33 still fails if compiled by
 > gcc-2.8.0 and egcs-971215!
 > 
 > Did anybody else see similar symptoms?
 > 
 > Looks - at least  for me - like  the loop unrolling stuff (and perhaps
 > other as well) hasn't really been improved by the merge with gcc-2.8.0
 > :-(

Just compiled my 2.1.76 kernel once  again this time using egcs-971225
to see if the `-funroll-all-loops' still persists.

IT'S FIXED!

I writing this e-mail  on the freshly compiled  kernel and didn't  had
any problems so far.  I'll only have  to reboot later  on to sent this
mail out into  the world, as  ISDN is still broken  in the most recent
kernels :-(

Keep up the good work, cheers 1998

Manfred