Re: [PATCH] alternative compat_ioctl table implementation

Arnd Bergmann (arnd@arndb.de)
Fri, 2 May 2003 23:42:04 +0200


On Friday 02 May 2003 20:09, Andi Kleen wrote:

> Rather ugly. In my experience all vmlinux.lds hacks are very fragile
> and they break when you just look at them in the wrong way. Also when
> something goes wrong they are a bitch to debug. And binutils is not
> exactly known for not introducing bugs with new releases.
Ok.

> Can't you work around that gcc 2.95 bug in some other way ?
Yes. I noticed now that only the x86_64 code (from which I copied)
contains the assembly version that breaks on cross-compile
and the sparc64 version works fine.

Arnd <><
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