egcs and Linux kernels

[Zack Weinberg]

On Wed, 10 Mar 1999 12:01:18 -0700, Jeffrey A Law wrote:
>
>  > - 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.

I originally had a sentence in there saying "gcc-2.7.2 might generate
bad code too, but it's been empirically verified to work" but I
decided it was too confusing.

zw