On Sun, 12 Aug 2007, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
>
> Yeah. Compiler errors are more annoying though I dare say ;-)
Actually, compile-time errors are fine, and easy to work around. *Much*
more annoying is when gcc actively generates subtly bad code. We've had
use-after-free issues due to incorrect gcc liveness calculations etc, and
inline asm has beeen one of the more common causes - exactly because the
kernel is one of the few users (along with glibc) that uses it at all.
Now *those* are hard to find - the code works most of the time, but the
compiler has inserted a really subtle race condition into the code
(deallocated a local stack entry before last use). We had that with our
semaphore code at some point.
Linus
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