Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Fri, 20 May 2005, Matthew Dobson wrote:
>
>
>>Christoph, I'm getting the following errors building rc4-mm2 w/ GCC 2.95.4:
>
>
> Works fine here with gcc 2.95.4.ds15-22 but that is a debian gcc
> 2.95.4 patched up to work correctly. If you need to address the pathology in pristine
> gcc 2.95.4 by changing the source then declare the entry field with 0
> members.
>
> Index: linux-2.6.12-rc4/mm/slab.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.12-rc4.orig/mm/slab.c 2005-05-19 21:29:45.000000000 +0000
> +++ linux-2.6.12-rc4/mm/slab.c 2005-05-20 19:18:22.000000000 +0000
> @@ -267,7 +267,7 @@
> #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
> spinlock_t lock;
> #endif
> - void *entry[];
> + void *entry[0];
> };
>
> /* bootstrap: The caches do not work without cpuarrays anymore,
>
>
>
> gcc 2.95 can produce proper code for ppc64?
>
>
>
>
>>mm/slab.c:281: field `entry' has incomplete typemm/slab.c: In function
>>'cache_alloc_refill':
>
>
> See patch above?
I can't for the life of me explain why, but the above patch makes ALL the
warnings go away, despite the fact that they seem unrelated. I dunno...
Maybe we should upgrade the compiler on that box?
-Matt
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