Re: [OT] Re: PCI-SCI Drivers v1.1-7 released

2001-02-07 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 07:22:19PM +, Alan Cox wrote: > > In file included from init.c:30: > > ../../prolog.h:344:8: invalid #ident > > It doesnt say #ident isnt supported it says your use of it is invalid. What > precisely does that line read ? JJ tried it and it worked on some version he w

Re: [OT] Re: PCI-SCI Drivers v1.1-7 released

2001-02-07 Thread Alan Cox
> In file included from init.c:30: > ../../prolog.h:344:8: invalid #ident It doesnt say #ident isnt supported it says your use of it is invalid. What precisely does that line read ? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: [OT] Re: PCI-SCI Drivers v1.1-7 released

2001-02-07 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 10:37:19AM -0800, Tim Wright wrote: > Umm, I don't know what compiler you've got etc. Jeff, but I just tried gcc-2.96 > (-69) here, and '#ident' is supported and works perfectly. The only way to even > get a warning is to use '-ansi -pedantic' which yields: > junk.c:1:2: wa

Re: [OT] Re: PCI-SCI Drivers v1.1-7 released

2001-02-07 Thread Tim Wright
Umm, I don't know what compiler you've got etc. Jeff, but I just tried gcc-2.96 (-69) here, and '#ident' is supported and works perfectly. The only way to even get a warning is to use '-ansi -pedantic' which yields: junk.c:1:2: warning: ISO C does not allow #ident I don't think the problem is wit

Re: [OT] Re: PCI-SCI Drivers v1.1-7 released

2001-02-07 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 12:32:13PM -0500, Jakub Jelinek wrote: > On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 11:08:52AM -0700, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > > Not supporting #ident for CVS managed code bases would see to > > me, at first glance, to be a show stopper to shipping a release > > of anything, since many folks

Re: [OT] Re: PCI-SCI Drivers v1.1-7 released

2001-02-07 Thread Jakub Jelinek
On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 11:08:52AM -0700, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > Not supporting #ident for CVS managed code bases would see to > me, at first glance, to be a show stopper to shipping a release > of anything, since many folks need CVS support. Could you please explain what you mean by not suppo

Re: [OT] Re: PCI-SCI Drivers v1.1-7 released

2001-02-07 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 09:07:31PM -0500, Gregory Maxwell wrote: > So.. It's likely that calling your performance issues 'gcc bugs' is about > the same as saying that SGI cc is buggy because it can't compile the kernel. > > At least you managed to avoid calling RedHat names. :) I really have no

[OT] Re: PCI-SCI Drivers v1.1-7 released

2001-02-06 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 07:06:24PM -0700, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > More to add on the gcc 2.96 problems. After compiling a Linux 2.4.1 > kernel on gcc 2.91, running SCI benchmarks, then compiling on RedHat > 7.1 (Fischer) with gcc 2.96, the 2.96 build DROPPED 30% in throughput > from the gcc 2.9