Re: compilers

[Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2001-12-05 at 14:36, Christian, Chip wrote:
 
> The SGI-built kernels work.  
> The RedHat-built kernels work.  
> When I built my own kernels, the module would load, 
> the card would get ifconfig'd up, etc.  Couldn't pass traffic.  

...

> I switched CC from kgcc to gcc-2.96-85, made no other 
> changes, and it now works great.

Which is even more interesting since:

The SGI-built kernels used kgcc
The RedHat-built kernels used gcc-2.96-85 AFAIK

:)

Although something about your config could have perturbed the code to
expose a compiler bug...

-Eric

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