On 07/20/2009 03:14 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Sunday 19 July 2009, Rahul Sundaram wrote: >> On 07/19/2009 11:31 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: >>> On Sun, 19 Jul 2009 23:11:52 +0530 >>> >>> Rahul Sundaram wrote: >>>> It is not so simple. This is not a compiler bug. I suggest you read >>>> through http://lwn.net/Articles/341773/rss to understand why. >>> >>> I did. It is a compiler bug no matter what a bunch of language lawyer >>> holier than thou compiler developers say :-). >> >> The kernel developers claim it is a kernel bug and the compiler >> developers claim it is not their bug and this everybody agrees with and >> yet you don't agree with all of them? Who is being holier than thou here? >> >> Kernel first dereferences a pointer, and after that checks whether it's >> NULL. It is quite common as a compiler optimization to compile out code >> like this. >> >> Rahul > > Ok, so what is the option to pass to the compiler to tell it not to do this? Did you not read the rest of the thread? http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=a3ca86aea507904148870946d599e07a340b39bf Rahul -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
