Re: Can't compile 2.4.3 with agcc

Horst von Brand (vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl)
Mon, 23 Apr 2001 18:25:17 -0400


David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> said:

[...]

> Then the kernel should say so, rather than giving a cryptic message like
> that, and containing code which isn't actually guaranteed to compile, even
> with a compiler which _does_ align the structure as we want it.

Your patch (tries to) transform a compile and link time check into a
runtime check. Not nice.

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