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Date:      Thu, 12 Aug 1999 17:23:11 -0600
From:      Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
To:        Alan Cox <alc@cs.rice.edu>
Cc:        stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Compiled a kernel with egcs 
Message-ID:  <199908122323.RAA06773@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 12 Aug 1999 18:05:48 CDT." <19990812180548.A27359@nonpc.cs.rice.edu> 
References:  <19990812180548.A27359@nonpc.cs.rice.edu>  <19990812164245.A26812@nonpc.cs.rice.edu> <199908122227.QAA06512@harmony.village.org> 

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In message <19990812180548.A27359@nonpc.cs.rice.edu> Alan Cox writes:
: Yes, I would be interested.  As far as we know, the combination
: of -STABLE's atomic.h and gcc-2.7.2.x generates safe code, but there's no
: point in relying on chance (i.e., the specifics of an old gcc's
: code generator) if we can avoid it.

Agreed.  Since we've vetted the old gcc code generators, the patches I
have use the old way for them and the new way for 2.8 and newer.
Mostly because I have never understood the constraints in asm
statements...

Warner


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