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SubjectRe: egcs-1.1.2 ping bug also causes miscompilation of pcbit isdn drive
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"Khimenko Victor" <khim@sch57.msk.ru> said:

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> And here we have MAJOR problem: there are NO easy replacements for some
> such things used in linux kernel. Yes, it's not portable but what's can be
> done ? EVEN if kernel is broken just stating that "such code is not portable
> and so it's not our problem" is NOT ENOUGH. Some workaround is needed. And
> workaround without speed loss and supported on all supported platforms !

Sorry, I can't agree here. If you are fooling around with operating systems
(those things usually depend intimately on the hardware they run on), a
certain amount of pain caused by non-portability at the source level has to
be taken into account.
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