I didn't feel like arguing any more, when I knew whoever it was who accused
me of spreading FUD was wrong.
Well, I found I needed to recompile, after having tweaked a few config
changes. Then I went to compiling the kernel, and gcc 2.96:
a) I ran memtest for about 35 or 40 min, and got through pass 0 with no
errors. This suggests no major memory chip errors;
b) I rebooted to single user mode, and unmounted everything other than /
and started compiling. And compiling. And compiling. Never did get past IPV4.
SEGVs. Floating point exceptions. Parse errors.
Just for the fun of it, I looked at one header file it claimed had a missing
semicolon. Nope. And I *think* I know a little bit about C, having been
writing C since 1989.
FUD my ass. gcc 2.96 is *broken*. It kept telling me to go to Bugzilla,
itself. Now, whoever was claiming claiming I was spreading FUD, if y'all want
to come over to Chicago, and try and run compile the kernel on my machine,
drop me an email offline. Otherwise, when I suggest to folks that they really
*do* need to either upgrade or downgrade,
->SHUT UP<-.
unless you think you can *prove* that I'm wrong, by giving *evidence*, which
is defined as demonstrable to an unbiased third party.
Oh, and go over to kernel.org, and you can do it with what they *say* is the
latest stable kernel, 2.4.19 (naught).
mark
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