Heads up: GCC 3.4

Joerg Sonnenberger joerg at britannica.bec.de
Tue Jun 22 01:47:10 PDT 2004


On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 12:57:39PM -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote:
>     For the hell of it I did compile up a gcc-3.4 -O3 kernel on one of
>     my test boxes.  It is not a recommended configuration and I would never
>     do that for a production box, but I just had to see if it worked.  So
>     far it seems to :-)

Whow. That's really surprising me. I expected GCC 3.4 to optimize away
our link sets. They changed the meaning of __attribute__((__unused__)),
we have to investigate changing parts of that to __attribute__((__used__)).

Joerg

> 
> 					-Matt
> 					Matthew Dillon 
> 					<dillon at xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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