On Tue, 30 Apr 2013 22:04:32 -0700 Eric Dumazet <eric.duma...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-05-01 at 13:24 +0930, Alan Modra wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 07:24:20PM -0700, Eric Dumazet wrote: > > > li 11,1 > > > ld 0,0(9) > > > rldimi 0,11,31,32 > > > std 0,0(9) > > > blr > > > .ident "GCC: (GNU) 4.6.3" > > > > > > You can see "ld 0,0(9)" is used : its a 64 bit load. > > > > Yup. This is not a powerpc64 specific problem. See > > http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=52080 > > Fixed in 4.8.0 and 4.7.3. > > Ah thanks. > > This seems a pretty serious issue, is it documented somewhere that > ppc64, sparc64 and others need such compiler version ? > > These kind of errors are pretty hard to find, its a pity to spend time > on them. There is a checkbin target inside arch/powerpc/Makefile Shouldn't a check be added there to block building kernel with known bad GCC versions? _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev