Broken gcc ?

Broken gcc ?

[Amarendra GODBOLE]

Hello World !

If I recall correctly, RHL 7 shipped with a broken gcc. Has it been 
fixed ? Basically, is it safe to switch to RHL 7 for development 
purposes ? Presently I use RHL 6.2 with 2.2.14 kernel.

Apologies if this is not the proper list for this question, and yes,
thanks in advance.

Peace,
-amar-

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Re: Broken gcc ?

[Alan Cox]

> If I recall correctly, RHL 7 shipped with a broken gcc. Has it been 
> fixed ? Basically, is it safe to switch to RHL 7 for development 
> purposes ? Presently I use RHL 6.2 with 2.2.14 kernel.

I do all my kernel development with gcc 2.96-69 and 2.96-81 (the errata
7.0 and the 7.1 gcc).

Re: Broken gcc ?

[Bob McElrath]

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Amarendra GODBOLE [agodbole@mahindrabt.com] wrote:
> Hello World !
> 
> If I recall correctly, RHL 7 shipped with a broken gcc. Has it been 
> fixed ? Basically, is it safe to switch to RHL 7 for development 
> purposes ? Presently I use RHL 6.2 with 2.2.14 kernel.

It "works"...sorta.  It will compile the kernel.  But in my development
using lots of STL and C++, I've become an expert at generating "Internal
compiler error" with it.  YMMV.

> Apologies if this is not the proper list for this question, and yes,
> thanks in advance.

Not really...

Cheers,
-- Bob

Bob McElrath (rsmcelrath@students.wisc.edu) 
Univ. of Wisconsin at Madison, Department of Physics

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Re: Broken gcc ?

[Michael Stiller]

> 
> I do all my kernel development with gcc 2.96-69 and 2.96-81 (the errata
> 7.0 and the 7.1 gcc).

2.96-81 will not compile sgi's xfs patches due to some cpp macros using ##.
Use kgcc supplied with rh7 for that.

Cheers,

-Michael

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