From: Horst von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>, mythos <papadako@csd.uoc.gr>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Can't compile 2.4.3 with agcc
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 18:25:17 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200104232225.f3NMPHrn001690@pincoya.inf.utfsm.cl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Message from David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> of "Mon, 23 Apr 2001 16:52:53 +0100." <24644.988041173@redhat.com>
David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> said:
[...]
> Then the kernel should say so, rather than giving a cryptic message like
> that, and containing code which isn't actually guaranteed to compile, even
> with a compiler which _does_ align the structure as we want it.
Your patch (tries to) transform a compile and link time check into a
runtime check. Not nice.
--
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-04-23 22:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-04-23 13:13 mythos
2001-04-23 14:48 ` Russell King
2001-04-23 15:27 ` Alan Cox
2001-04-23 15:52 ` David Woodhouse
2001-04-23 17:57 ` Ingo Oeser
2001-04-23 19:43 ` Alan Cox
2001-04-23 20:46 ` David Woodhouse
2001-04-23 21:03 ` Matan Ziv-Av
2001-04-23 21:16 ` David Woodhouse
2001-04-23 22:32 ` Andrzej Krzysztofowicz
2001-04-23 22:54 ` David Woodhouse
2001-04-24 8:53 ` Russell King
2001-04-24 12:37 ` David Woodhouse
2001-04-23 22:25 ` Horst von Brand [this message]
2001-04-23 22:35 ` David Woodhouse
2001-04-24 13:28 ` Horst von Brand
2001-04-24 13:30 ` David Woodhouse
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