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Re: 2.4.0 and 2.4.1 status ...

To: yakker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Matt D. Robinson)
Subject: Re: 2.4.0 and 2.4.1 status ...
From: Dave Craft <dcraft@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 18:43:56 -0600 (CST)
Cc: lkcd@xxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <3A7F3EB0.382552AB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> from "Matt D. Robinson" at Feb 05, 2001 04:00:48 PM
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        You may want to try the egcs compilers provided with
        RH 7.0 (compat-egcs-6.2-1.1.2.9).  These are roughly
        equivalent to the 2.91.66 gcc version provided with RH 6.2

        I've run into a number of problems with the default gcc 
        version 2.96.

        dave

>
>Just an FYI, we've finished up the patches, but we've found a small
>problem on panic() dumps with the new RH 7.0 compilers where we
>don't get a proper stack trace.  At least, that's where we believe
>the problem is.  :)  We're working on resolving it now.
>
>I just wanted to let people know where we were at, and that we'll
>release the patches as soon as we're over this bug (hopefully in the
>next day or two, tops).
>
>Also, to Nomura-san, we'll try to add in your page typing fixes
>for the 2.4.X (X > 1) revisions, so we'll actually move over to
>page typing.  Thanks to everyone for their source change
>recommendations so far.
>
>--Matt
>


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