Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Apr 2007, Andy Whitcroft wrote:
>
>>> But then how important is gcc 3.3 support?
>> Well we say 3.2 is the minimum. If we simply return(NULL) or BUG() in
>
> Oh before I forget
>
> Gcc 3.3 works just fine on other platforms like i386. This is more likely
> a platform issue. If we disable it then only for <= gcc 3.3 on ppc. If
> problems crop up with other platforms then we can expand on it.
I was thinking that it would be nasty to have a set of platform
specific, compiler specific ifdefs in here. I was more thinking of just
making this a BUG for all platforms. This does result in slightly later
detection but this is a constant mode only, so any bad use of kmalloc()
would be picked up on first boot in testing always.
I think that would be sufficient and safe even against the worst
optimiser (none). Plus much less horrible to look at?
-apw
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