C Code mutilation by using gcc-3.3.x

[Daniel Berlin]

>
> Hello,
>
> I write this email not by accident.

This is good. Personally, I email people accidently all the time.
I'm just sitting around, hacking on gcc, i start a compile, and boom, 
i've accidently emailed someone about the weather in Paris.


> How to make and load a Driver module (UP/SMP) for FastTrak
>
> 1.) Make sure you have linux kernel source code in /usr/src/linux,
>     and the gcc version is 3.x by issuing the command -
>     # gcc -v
>
...


> When trying to compile this driver source with gcc-2.95.3 instead
> of gcc-3.3.1 , i get the following results :
>
...

So let me get this one straight:
The directions say to use version 3+, and show you how to verify that 
you have version 3 as step 1.
You note that you do not have version 3, as required by step 1, but 
decide to proceded anyway.
Compiling with not version 3 fails miserably.
You act surprised.

>
> Whats going on here?

You aren't following their directions, and when it fails to work, you 
are complaining about it?
I don't get it either.
> How in earth could the Free Software Foundation and the GCC Team 
> allowed this
> to happen?
>
In earth?
It didn't happen in earth, it happened on earth.
And even that's not quite true.
This is really because of people from another planet, who designed C 
(Hi Dennis!).

In the future, we'll be happy to address your problems if you, say, 
file a bug report according to the bug reporting directions, instead of 
say, randomly ranting on gcc mailing lists copying irrelevant people 
(Note that i can do this, since i'm not trying to report what i think 
to be a bug).

--Dan