ia64-linux kernel panics when running tests for recent GCC snapshots

[Janis Johnson]

> Richard Henderson wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 12:34:50PM -0800, Joe Buck wrote:
> > Ask the kernel folks.  No matter how buggy gcc may be, if you can panic
> > the kernel by just running the test suite it is their bug.
>
> That depends on whether Janis built the running kernel with the
> new compiler.  Something that was not mentioned in the orignal
> message, unfortunately.

No, I had not built the kernel with the new compiler.

I certainly agree that this is due to a bug in the kernel,
which should not panic no matter what user code does.  The
behavior is uncovered by a change in recent GCC snapshots.
Since I sent the first message about it neither machine has
had problems, and I've been running GCC tests just waiting
to see it again so I can show it to a local kernel developer.

Janis