Re: PROBLEM: Compiler error for 2.6.0 in fs/proc/array.c

[William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>]

On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 06:15:31AM -0800, Kevin Douglas wrote:
> Compiler error for 2.6.0 in fs/proc/array.c with gcc-2.95 and binutils
> 2.13.
> I received the following error while trying to compile the new 2.6.0
> (no -test anything) on my RH 7.3 box.  I have gcc version 2.95.3
> installed in addion to the yuckie 2.96 from RH.  While search the
> mailing list archives, I found some patches for the -test7 and/or
> -test8 series that claim they fix a gcc 2.96 bug.  I applied the patch
> on the original 2.6.0 source tree and the compile went through.  The
> patch I'm talking about involved making the tty_nr variable into a
> volatile int in the file fs/proc/array.c line number 298.  There are
> other patches that attempt to break up the huge sprintf() statement on
> line 347 into smaller chucks.  I'm not sure which would be preferable
> to the maintainer.
> The point of this email is to hopefully bring to your attention a
> compilation bug in the 2.6.0 source.  If I made a mistake and don't
> have my environment set up correctly, please accept my appologies.
> Hope this helps,
> -kevin

What you have found is actually a gcc bug. Upgrade gcc!

-- wli