Re: Back to gcc 2.96

[John Nichel]

I really don't know who you're arguing with, as I haven't been keeping up with this thread, but I'm currently using gcc 2.96-112 with no problems. Not saying that you're right or wrong, because I haven't used it to try and compile a kernel (I usually do my kernels from RPM's), but I haven't had a lick of problems with gcc 2.96, and I'm constantally compiling something. Maybe your build of gcc 2.96 is off...maybe your download of the new kernel is courrupt somehow...maybe the problem is somewhere else on your system (memory addressing?). Who knows?

mark wrote:

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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