On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 10:43:02AM -0700, Bryan Chua wrote:
> Has anyone else come across a compile error:
>
> mips-linux-gcc -I /local/chua/public/linux-mips-latest/include/asm/gcc
> -D__KERNEL__ -I/local/chua/public/linux-mips-latest/include -Wall
> -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -G 0
> -mno-abicalls -fno-pic -mcpu=r5000 -mips2 -Wa,--trap -pipe -c -o
> timer.o timer.c
> timer.c:35: conflicting types for `xtime'
> /local/chua/public/linux-mips-latest/include/linux/sched.h:540: previous
> declaration of `xtime'
>
> in include/linux/sched.h:
> extern struct timeval xtime;
>
> int timer.c:
> volatile struct timeval xtime __attribute__ ((aligned (16)));
>
> I am using gcc 3.0 and binutils 2.11.2, both of the released versions.
> I do not know if my kernel actually runs yet with this toolchain...
That's a bug which got fixed in the latest kernels by removing the
volatile from the sched.h declaration.
Ralf
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