On Wed, 25 Oct 2000, Brian Gerst wrote:

> David Dyck wrote:
> > 
> > > I am getting a repeatable oops during the boot up phase,
> > > with linux 2.4.0  test10-pre4
> > 
> >     I'm seeing the same oops with test10-pre5.
> >     I don't get the error with 2.4.0-test9.
> > 
> > > Even a simple "mount /proc" command yields an oops.
> > > I believe I have the latest mount program.
> > 

> I know what your problem is now:
> 
> > > Gnu C                  2.7.2.3
> 
> GCC 2.7.2.3 miscompiles the kernel_module structure.  Since this is
> where the exception table pointers are stored in a modular kernel, the
> page fault handler was failing to find the exception handler and causing
> an oops.

Thanks, I should try to compile using another machine with another
compiler installed....

What should the following line in linux/Documentatoin/Changes be changed to?
o  Gnu C                  2.7.2.3                 # gcc --version


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