Re: [PATCH 2.4.31 0/9] gcc4 fixes overview

[Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>]

Hi Mikael,

I believe its about time for v2.4 to reject such kind of modifications, 
they can live outside the mainline repository. 

On Sun, Jun 12, 2005 at 01:16:19PM +0200, Mikael Pettersson wrote:
> This set of patches fixes gcc4 problems in the 2.4.31
> kernel's 'core' code. I've been running gcc4-compiled 2.4
> kernels for several months on i386, x86_64, and ppc32, and
> there are currently no known regressions compared to gcc34.
> 
> Note: you'll want to use recent gcc-4.0.1 snapshots as
> gcc-4.0.0 is known to be broken.
> 
> This set of patches do not include fixes to drivers,
> file systems, or architectures I don't use myself. I
> have a preliminary patch kit for those, but as it
> has received only limited compile testing I'm not
> submitting it unless these core patches are accepted.
> 
> The patch set consists of the following 9 parts:
> [1/9] fix incomplete array errors
> [2/9] fix static-vs-nonstatic redefinition errors
> [3/9] fix nested function declaration errors
> [4/9] fix undefined strcpy linkage errors
> [5/9] fix x86_64 acpi assembly error
> [6/9] fix x86_64 sys_iopl() bug
> [7/9] fix const function warnings
> [8/9] silence pointer signedness warnings
> [9/9] fix i386 struct_cpy() warnings
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