2.1.126 hangs at boot

[Jeffrey A Law]

  In message < XFMail.981024185640.dbr@oto.dyn.ml.org >you write:
  > On 25-Oct-98 Michael Harnois wrote:
  > > torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds) writes:
  > > 
  > >> Can you tell a bit more about your situation? UP vs SMP, hardware,
  > >> configuration etc?
  > > 
  > > i386 UP (Intel Pentium), 56MB RAM, egcs-1.1a, binutils-2.9.1.0.15.
  > > 
  > > Just to make sure I wasn't leading anyone down the wrong path, I went
  > > back and built 2.1.125 again. Booted fine. Rebuilt 2.1.126, hangs in
  > > the same place.
  > 
  > What optimization level did you compile at?  I know that Alex Cox's last ac
  > patches revealed a bug in egcs at optimation levels += -O3.  (Do the egcs
  > guys know about this?)
First we've heard of it as far as I know.

Can someone (Alan Cox perhaps) send a testcase?

jeff