Linus Torvalds wrote:
>  (a) the new compiler requirements (sorry, but it turned out that 2.7.2.3
>      really is too subtly broken with named structure initializers that
>      are very heavily used these days inside the kernel)
> 
>      Suggested stable compiler: gcc-2.91.66, aka egcs-1.1.2, which is the
>      one most vendors have been shipping for a long time, and while sure
>      to be buggy too has not been found to be seriously so at least yet.
> 
>      Other modern gcc versions may well work too.

Since egcs-1.1.2 supports -fno-strict-aliasing, would the attached patch
against linux/Makefile be appropriate?

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