egcs-1.1 status

[David S. Miller]

   Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 14:24:54 -0600
   From: Jeffrey A Law <law@cygnus.com>

     > A new problem that just has appeared today is that Linux 2.1 uses 
     > __attribute__((regparm)) for some critical functions, and at least egcs 1.0
     > seems to have problems to generate correct code with this in all cases.
   Oh god.  Please stop them from doing this.  regparm does not work on
   the x86 and will never work correctly on the x86.  They're just going
   to shoot themselves in the foot.

So there are plans to disable it entirely since it cannot be fixed?
If it doesn't work and is beyond repair, it should be removed.

Later,
David S. Miller
davem@dm.cobaltmicro.com