[FYI] gcc 4.5.1 causes the Linux kernel to hang

2017-08-23 Thread Steven Rostedt
[ This is FYI only. Documenting what I found with gcc 4.5.1 (but is fixed in 4.5.4 ] Part of my test suit is to build the kernel with a compiler before asm goto was supported (to test jump labels without it). Recently I noticed that the kernel started to hang when building with it. For a

[FYI] gcc 4.5.1 causes the Linux kernel to hang

2017-08-23 Thread Steven Rostedt
[ This is FYI only. Documenting what I found with gcc 4.5.1 (but is fixed in 4.5.4 ] Part of my test suit is to build the kernel with a compiler before asm goto was supported (to test jump labels without it). Recently I noticed that the kernel started to hang when building with it. For a