pre egcs-1.1 testing and Linux 2.1.x

[Linus Torvalds]

On Sun, 23 Aug 1998, David S. Miller wrote:
> 
> BULLSHIT, remember that whole "local label in inline function" fiasco?
> That was a Kenner change in Kenner's tree, that I wanted to kill
> before it got merged into the egcs tree.  Case closed.

That is sad. 

That's the other real beef I've had with gcc development lately, and was
the reason I reacted so strongly to this. If that was Kenner, then I do
retract the statement that Kenner never did me no wrong. I just happened
to interact with the egcs people on it. 

I've actually been very happy with gcc development 99% of the time. I
never had a problem at all until very recently, but now within a few
months of each other I've had two cases where I thought the maintainers
acted completely irrationally, wanting to disable features that had better
fixes.

[ Yes, even the "disable certain optimizations" patch is a better fix than
  disabling the cases that can trigger the optimization bugs. No, I don't
  like that patch either, but I like it a whole lot more than trying to
  just make the bug harder to notice ]

		Linus