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From: "Alexey Dobriyan" <adobriyan@gmail.com>
To: "Adrian Bunk" <bunk@kernel.org>
Cc: "Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	"Ingo Molnar" <mingo@elte.hu>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Greg KH" <gregkh@suse.de>,
	"Alexander Viro" <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>,
	"Peter Zijlstra" <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Subject: Re: [bug] crash when reading /proc/mounts (was: Re: Linux 2.6.23-rc9 and a heads-up for the 2.6.24 series..)
Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2007 19:08:43 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b6fcc0a0710040808x56ff97a2o2e7a461f738abd84@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071004141251.GG10852@stusta.de>

On 10/4/07, Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 08:11:05AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> >...
> > and btw, there is no question what-so-ever about whether your compiler
> > might be doing a legal optimization - the compiler really is wrong, and is
> > total shit. You need to make a gcc bug-report.
> >...
>
> Ingo can't send a gcc bug-report since gcc 4.0 is no longer supported
> upstream and a 4.1.2 compiler was confirmed to work.

Ingo can upgrade to 4.0.4. :-)

> Our only options are to either stop supporting the broken gcc versions
> as compiler for the kernel or to work around this compiler bug in the
> kernel.

Distro can backport a fix for miscompilation while leaving, say,
__GNUC_MINOR__ intact, so banning version numbers aren't terribly
useful.

Perhaps, someone should write a script/test program to check for known
miscompilations. to cure himself from deprecation disease.

    Alexey "make cc_check" Dobriyan

  reply	other threads:[~2007-10-04 15:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 85+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <alpine.LFD.0.999.0710012029400.3579@woody.linux-foundation.org >
2007-10-02  3:41 ` Linux 2.6.23-rc9 and a heads-up for the 2.6.24 series Linus Torvalds
2007-10-02  9:17   ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-10-02  9:21     ` Andi Kleen
2007-10-02 10:37       ` Jeff Garzik
2007-10-02 10:48         ` Andi Kleen
2007-10-02 11:05           ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-10-02 14:07             ` Ingo Molnar
2007-10-02 14:23               ` Andi Kleen
2007-10-02 14:31                 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-10-02 14:54                   ` Andi Kleen
2007-10-02 14:58                   ` Sam Ravnborg
2007-10-02 15:24                     ` Andi Kleen
2007-10-02 15:27                     ` Ingo Molnar
2007-10-02 15:30                     ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-10-02 15:40                       ` Sam Ravnborg
2007-10-02 12:04       ` Jiri Kosina
2007-10-02 20:12     ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-10-02 20:11       ` Andrew Morton
2007-10-02 20:31         ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-10-02 20:32         ` Roland Dreier
2007-10-03  3:53     ` Eric St-Laurent
2007-10-02 12:07   ` Mel Gorman
2007-10-02 12:15     ` Ingo Molnar
2007-10-02 17:21       ` Mel Gorman
2007-10-02 22:09         ` Bill Davidsen
2007-10-03  0:37           ` Mel Gorman
2007-10-03  8:21             ` Ingo Molnar
2007-10-03 12:51               ` Mel Gorman
2007-10-22 15:56                 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-10-03  8:19         ` Ingo Molnar
2007-10-02 14:44   ` John Stoffel
2007-10-02 15:03     ` Ingo Molnar
2007-10-02 15:45     ` John Stoffel
2007-10-02 22:13     ` Bill Davidsen
2007-10-02 22:44   ` Willy Tarreau
2007-10-02 22:51   ` Alistair John Strachan
2007-10-02 23:00     ` Glauber de Oliveira Costa
2007-10-05  5:41       ` Ingo Molnar
2007-10-05  5:38     ` Ingo Molnar
2007-10-05  6:11       ` Sam Ravnborg
2007-10-05  8:32         ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-10-07 23:44           ` Alistair John Strachan
2007-10-02 23:07   ` Diego Calleja
2007-10-02 23:32     ` Linus Torvalds
2007-10-03 15:28       ` Diego Calleja
2007-10-03  8:46   ` [bug] crash when reading /proc/mounts (was: Re: Linux 2.6.23-rc9 and a heads-up for the 2.6.24 series..) Ingo Molnar
2007-10-03  8:50     ` Ingo Molnar
2007-10-03  9:12       ` Ingo Molnar
2007-10-03  9:23         ` Ingo Molnar
2007-10-03 13:34     ` Al Viro
2007-10-03 14:08       ` Ingo Molnar
2007-10-03 14:26         ` Al Viro
2007-10-03 15:12           ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-10-03 15:11     ` Linus Torvalds
2007-10-03 15:40       ` Ingo Molnar
2007-10-03 16:07         ` Linus Torvalds
2007-10-03 15:47       ` Linus Torvalds
2007-10-03 15:49         ` Ingo Molnar
2007-10-03 16:07           ` Ingo Molnar
2007-10-03 15:51       ` Alan Cox
2007-10-03 16:09         ` Linus Torvalds
2007-10-03 16:25           ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-10-03 17:07             ` Linus Torvalds
2007-10-04 14:12       ` Adrian Bunk
2007-10-04 15:08         ` Alexey Dobriyan [this message]
2007-10-03 14:21   ` Linux 2.6.23-rc9 and a heads-up for the 2.6.24 series Timo Jantunen
2007-10-03 19:07   ` Jeff Garzik
2007-10-03 19:25     ` Linus Torvalds
2007-10-04 11:55   ` [patch] net, 9p: build fix with !CONFIG_SYSCTL Ingo Molnar
2007-10-04 17:05   ` [BUG] Linux 2.6.23-rc9 and MAX_ARG_PAGES Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer
2007-10-04 17:17     ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-10-04 20:47       ` Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer
2007-10-04 21:58       ` Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer
2007-10-04 17:27     ` Linus Torvalds
2007-10-04 20:44       ` Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer
2007-10-04 21:21         ` Linus Torvalds
2007-10-04 22:27           ` Paul Mackerras
2007-10-05  0:12             ` Linus Torvalds
2007-10-05  3:22               ` Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer
2007-10-05  7:43                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-10-04 21:50     ` Chuck Ebbert
2007-10-04 21:54       ` Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer
2007-10-06  8:29     ` Hans-Peter Jansen
2007-10-06 11:29       ` Hans-Peter Jansen
2007-10-06 17:36     ` Bill Davidsen

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