Re: 2.5.7 build breakage around blkpg.c

William Lee Irwin III (wli@holomorphy.com)
Fri, 29 Mar 2002 16:18:59 -0800


At some point in the past, I wrote:
>> What hit me?

On Fri, Mar 29, 2002 at 11:35:02PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> gcc bug hit you. Workaround by adding volatile's to all local
> variables in affected function.

seems to do with generating an illegal instruction in response to
high register pressure around inline assembly.

Cheers,
Bill
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