Re: binutils bug workaround

["H . J . Lu" <hjl@lucon.org>]

On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 10:44:30PM +0100, Vivien Chappelier wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>       There is a binutils bug (as) which produces bad addresses when
> getting the address of a struct member for initializing the same struct,
> and when there is data or static functions declared before:
> int test = 0xdeadbeef;
> 
> struct {
>         int dummy;
>         void *ptr;
> } bug =
> {
>   ptr:  &bug.ptr
> };
> 
> will produce bad value for bug.ptr.
> 
>       This patch move the declaration of kswapd_wait as a workaround to
> this compiler bug. This probably affects all mips64 kernels.
> 

Shouldn't you fix the assmbler instead?


H.J.