Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 19 Dec 2003 06:26:54 -0800 | From | William Lee Irwin III <> | Subject | Re: PROBLEM: Compiler error for 2.6.0 in fs/proc/array.c |
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On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 06:15:31AM -0800, Kevin Douglas wrote: > Compiler error for 2.6.0 in fs/proc/array.c with gcc-2.95 and binutils > 2.13. > I received the following error while trying to compile the new 2.6.0 > (no -test anything) on my RH 7.3 box. I have gcc version 2.95.3 > installed in addion to the yuckie 2.96 from RH. While search the > mailing list archives, I found some patches for the -test7 and/or > -test8 series that claim they fix a gcc 2.96 bug. I applied the patch > on the original 2.6.0 source tree and the compile went through. The > patch I'm talking about involved making the tty_nr variable into a > volatile int in the file fs/proc/array.c line number 298. There are > other patches that attempt to break up the huge sprintf() statement on > line 347 into smaller chucks. I'm not sure which would be preferable > to the maintainer. > The point of this email is to hopefully bring to your attention a > compilation bug in the 2.6.0 source. If I made a mistake and don't > have my environment set up correctly, please accept my appologies. > Hope this helps, > -kevin
What you have found is actually a gcc bug. Upgrade gcc!
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