Re: gcc-2.95.1 and linux kernel Was:Re: gcc-2.95.1 and ftp.alphalinux.org

[sopwith redhat com (Elliot Lee)]

On 2 Sep 1999 17:52:09 -0400, Neil Carlson <nnc@lanl.gov> wrote:
>Elliot Lee wrote:
>> 
>> You can get some ones [gcc-2.95.1 rpms] that I made from ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/sopwith/
>> 
>> I would not recommend doing more than experimenting with them, since the
>> 2.2.12 kernel I built with them would crash/reboot regularly, whereas the
>> exact same kernel built with the RHL 6.0 egcs worked semi-stably.
>
>Did you modify the kernel Makefiles to include the -fno-strict-aliasing
>flag?  The "caveats" page for 2.95 indicate that this is necessary.

The Makefile for 2.2.12 already has this flag in it, so no modification was necessary.

-- Elliot
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