pre egcs-1.1 testing and Linux 2.1.x

[Jeffrey A Law]

  In message < 19980823152544.A2229@test.legislate.com >you write:
  > David S. Miller <davem@dm.cobaltmicro.com> wrote:
  > > 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.
  > 
  > Er.. it *sometimes* generates incorrect code.
  > 
  > Wouldn't it be better to simply generate an error ("sorry, but ...")for
  > cases where it doesn't generate correct code.  [If Linus's usage are
  > the only known cases where it generates correct code then these would
  > be base for the template of what's acceptable.]
Unfortunately, we can not detect when it is going to generate incorrect
code.


jeff