pre egcs-1.1 testing and Linux 2.1.x

[Linus Torvalds]

On Sun, 23 Aug 1998, David S. Miller wrote:
> 
>    However, I will continue to ignore developers who don't say "we
>    will fix it eventually", but instead say "let's remove the feature,
>    we'll never be able to fix it".
> 
> And the egcs team has not said the latter.  But they will turn the
> feature off until such time as the fix is made, since it generates
> incorrect code.

People I trust tell me that the problem can occur even without regparm,
it's just that regparm is able to trigger the _real_ bug much more easily.

As such, disabling the feature pretty much amounts to hiding your head in
the sand. 

Oh, well. 

		Linus