Recently folks here pointed out to me that it was known that gcc 2.95 is not to be used for 2.2.x kernels.
Others said that it was OK with 2.2 kernels but not 2.0 kernels. Looking at various kernel and gcc deb packages in potato, I saw hints of the latter statement, but it didn't seem real clear. Just now I came across the following for 2.2.13 (I'm using 2.2.14). Still, that's good enough for me. Since the two compilers co-exist quite nicely on my potato system, I'm going back to gcc272 to build my 2.2.14 kernel even though it seems to be running OK since I built it last week. http://kernelnotes.org/kpatch22.html Linux 2.2.13 Release Notes Errata Compilers This code is intended to build with gcc 2.7.2 and egcs 1.1.2. It is known that not all of it builds validly on the x86 CPU's with gcc 2.95. As far as we know these are Linux not gcc issues. Fixes for gcc 2.95 to gcc 3.0 may go into Linux 2.2 in time. You should therefore not use gcc 2.95 to build stable kernels for the moment. ...RickM...
