Heads up: GCC 3.4
Matthew Dillon
dillon at apollo.backplane.com
Tue Jun 22 09:42:59 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
Yes, it suprised me too. I may break 3.4 kernel builds again when I
turn on propolice by default (which I am about to do), so beware!
-Matt
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