"Also sprach Debian Bug Tracking System:" > On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 11:34:03AM +0200, Peter T. Breuer wrote: > > Compiling kernel 2.6.24.2 on ia32, compilaton fails at final link > > complaining about not being able to find __udivdi3 and __umoddi3 for > > getnstimeofday in kernel/time/timekeeping.c (and a few similar > > complaints for other functions in that file). > > Bug in the Linux kernel. They don't provide libgcc.
That doesn't convince me (and I am a compiler writer and a linux kernel author :-). The compiler changed in a point increment to emit code which now requires library support for innocuous source code what it didn't need support for before (is this a 64 bit dvision by an integer, or something like that?) - that's not backward compatible, surely! I.e. Anyone who tries to compile an "old" (as in last month's) kernel with your new compiler will fail. As intended, maybe, but a design bug then. You should instead provide a special switch to turn ON the new behaviour, or turn it off using one of the switches already provided in the kernel compolation. Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
