egcs and Linux kernels

[Joe Buck]

>   > - gcc 2.8.1 and egcs (all released versions) may silently generate bad
>   > code for the incorrect asm constructs in old kernels 
> And "gcc-2.7.2".  There's nothing magical about gcc-2.7.2 that prevents it
> losing due to the incorrect asms.

Except that it has been thoroughly tested, and it so happens that at
least if you use the same options the kernel developers used, you don't
get bad code with gcc-2.7.2.