Re: Fixes for uaccess.h with gcc >= 4.0.1

["P. Christeas" <p_christ@hol.gr>]

On Monday 23 January 2006 5:37 pm, Ralf Baechle wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 05:18:38PM +0200, P. Christeas wrote:
> > On Monday 23 January 2006 5:05 pm, Ralf Baechle wrote:
> > > I'd appreciate if somebody with gcc 4.0.1 could test this kernel patch
> > > below.
> > >
> > >   Ralf
> >
> > Is that for 2.4?
>
> 2.4 is a no go for all architectures with gcc >= 4.0.0 and in case of MIPS
> even gcc 3.4 is somewhat dubious.
>
> > 2.6 doesn't seem to have that problem..
>
> It's probably a matter of configuration then.  Basically with our current
> uaccess.h and gcc >= 4.0.1 the attempt to pass a pointer to a const
> variable as the pointer argument to get_user or __get_user will blow up.
> It's always been a bug - but gcc before 4.0.1 were accepting this
> silently.
>
>   Ralf

I 've been compiling with gcc 4.0.2 (my tree is Linus') and haven't seen any 
message like that. It all compiles fine. Is there a point in testing your 
patch as well?