Re: Problems with deleting directories

[Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxx>]

Steve Lord <lord@xxxxxxx> writes:
>
> The xscale issue seemed to be compiler related, I suggested
> alternate code, but I never heard back. Do you know if
> there was a resolution which did not make it onto the
> list? The code change proposed by the xscale folks was
> not correct even though it made the issue go away.

As a generic comment a good way to stop the compiler
from miscompiling something is to move part of the problematic
expression into a separate function declared "noinline" 
(or __attribute__((noinline)) in 2.4) 

-Andi