[John Summerfield]
> > The official stance (last time I saw Alan write on the subject) was
> > that 2.95.x tickles kernel bugs that egcs 1.1.2 and gcc 2.7.2.3 don't,
> > so as of yet kernels are still best compiled with older compilers.
>
> Compile-time? or do they show at run-time?
The only things I heard about were run-time (except for early-on
stuff where 2.95.1 had -fstrict-aliasing by default, IIRC)
> > The unofficial stance has been use 2.95 if you want, but make sure you
> > can reproduce any possible kernel bugs under egcs or 2.7.2.3 before
> > bothering to report them (and vmware is Right Out, of course)
>
> How is vmware affected?
> btw, can I run OS/2 under vmware? NT4?
You misunderstand. kernel bugs should be reproducible with a Blessed
Compiler (2.7.2.3 ideally) and no binary-only modules (vmware, etc)
loaded. Otherwise, don't bother reporting them, that's all :)
James
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