From: "James Yu" <cyu021@gmail.com>
To: "Willy Tarreau" <willy@w.ods.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: weird behavior from kernel
Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2006 17:25:11 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <60bb95410603120125n24c3a283xe1fabeb255c8c59b@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060312084632.GB21493@w.ods.org>
The major reason to choose 2.4.18 as my dev base is that the dev is
ment to be carried out on a custom ARM board, and there isn't any
2.6's port available.
I'll try that "-fno-strength-reduce" option and see how it goes.
More comments are welcome.
cheers,
On 3/12/06, Willy Tarreau <willy@w.ods.org> wrote:
> It might be a wrong gcc optimization which generates bad code. If you're
> working on such an old kernel (about 5 years old), maybe you're using
> and old, broken compiler too ? gcc-2.95[.1], gcc-2.96, 3.0 and 3.1 have
> been known to produce bad code for a long time. Also ensure that you
> pass the "-fno-strength-reduce" option to gcc.
>
> Anyway, if you're starting a new dev, I would suggest using a more
> recent kernel : 2.6.1[56] or 2.4.32 if you need 2.4.
>
> regards,
> Willy
>
>
--
James
cyu021@gmail.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-03-12 9:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-03-12 3:23 James Yu
2006-03-12 8:46 ` Willy Tarreau
2006-03-12 9:25 ` James Yu [this message]
2006-03-12 21:37 ` Ben Dooks
2006-03-13 7:41 ` James Yu
2006-03-13 9:11 ` Willy Tarreau
2006-03-13 10:23 ` Ben Dooks
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