Re: gcc include strangeness

[Ralf Baechle <ralf@oss.sgi.com>]

On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 05:28:44PM +0100, Johannes Stezenbach wrote:

> >  Is gcc 3.x already stable enough to be used by people not directly
> > involved in gcc development?  More specifically for MIPS/Linux and
> > i386/Linux, for both the kernel and the userland?  I'm told it is not.
> 
> I'm reading about gcc 3.x code generation bugs every now and then,
> but so far I did not hit any of them.

I've fixed several kernel bugs that got triggered by building with 3.0.
We've got an a piece of inline assembler where a constraint gets ignored
by 3.0 resulting in bad code.  Add slow compilation and slow code.  3.0?
No way.  Yet.

  Ralf