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From: Arjan van Staalduijnen <arjan@van.staalduijnen.net>
To: Marco Roeland <marco.roeland@xs4all.nl>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PROBLEM: Compile failure when 'Preemptible Kernel' is disabled in 2.6.0-test11.
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 18:14:12 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3FD8A5E4.9050206@van.staalduijnen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031211133341.GA14573@localhost>

Marco Roeland wrote:
>>[1.] Compile failure when 'Preemptible Kernel' is disabled.
> It has nothing to do with 'preemptible'!
Correct, but switching that option was just the way for me to trigger or 
'untrigger' this problem.

> This is a known compiler bug for RedHat's gcc 2.96 version. It has
> difficulty casting 'unsigned long long's! Try this, it applies against
> 2.6.0-test8 and later.
=== patch snipped ===
Applying the patch indeed solved this compile failure. I can now turn 
off the Preemtible kernel feature while still being able to compile the 
code.

Thanks,

Arjan


      reply	other threads:[~2003-12-11 17:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-12-11 12:50 Arjan van Staalduijnen
2003-12-11 13:33 ` Marco Roeland
2003-12-11 17:14   ` Arjan van Staalduijnen [this message]

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