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SubjectRe: strange problem in X
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Artur Skawina <skawina@geocities.com> said:
> Matti Aarnio wrote:
> > egcs doesn't per default turn on -fstrict-aliasing processing,
> > but gcc 2.9 will (or so we are told).

> > For an educative experience, try compiling your kernel with that
> > switch, and tell what happens ?

> i've been doing that (compiling the kernel w/ the current egcs2.95
> snapshots, w/o -fno-strict-aliasing) since a few days and, surprisingly,
> I have not seen any problems at all. (why i tried that? - both egcs1.0.2
> and egcs1.1.2 produce kernels with broken networking (with strict
> aliasing _off_). gcc2.95 seems to do ok)

i586 UP: IDE autodetection gets turned off by an interaction with memset(),
resulting kernels panic on boot. At least that happend to me recently.
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