Re: [PATCH] 2.4.22-pre3: P3 and P4 for chekc_gcc

Jeff Garzik (jgarzik@pobox.com)
Wed, 09 Jul 2003 19:57:01 -0400


J.A. Magallon wrote:
> Just curious, what can go wrong ? Only if gcc has a bug when scheduling
> insns for P4, for example, or if gcc spits some special that does not
> work as supposed...

Well, any number of things, but I admit it's mostly just general
paranoia / conservatism on my part.

In the past, on rare occasions, modification of the global CFLAGS or use
of new gcc features has led to silent miscompilation of a few drivers.

Jeff

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