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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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