On Wed, 25 Oct 2000, Brian Gerst wrote:
> > On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, David Dyck wrote:
> >
> > > I am getting a repeatable oops during the boot up phase,
> > > with linux 2.4.0 test10-pre4
>
> 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 Brian, I finally got around to updating the compiler,
and this did fix the problem
My thanks also to Barry for posting the patch to
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