On Sat, Nov 04, 2000 at 03:10:50AM +0000, Pete Popov wrote:
> > Sigh, yes you're right as other have already pointed out on IRC ...
>
> > Gcc 2.7 is no longer being used for Linux/MIPS since a long time and I'd
> > simply bitbucket any bugreport related to it. Most people are using egcs
> > 1.0.3a for everything which is older than the required minimum version
> 1.1.2,
> > so we're in some trouble.
>
> > I've got reports regarding the 1.1.2 crosscompiler which say that it
> > misscompiles MIPS kernels, sigh ...
>
> What are the symptoms of a "miscompiled" kernel and how does one detect
> that (assuming that the kernel actually compiles successfully, but has
> problems running).
When trying to work on a serial terminal hooked up to an Indy it'll oops.
Question is if the compiler is buggy or if it's particular code generation
is just triggering a bug in the kernel code.
Ralf
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