[ale] Moving Right Along..

[Michael H. Warfield]

Ben Scherrey enscribed thusly:
> Really?!?!? What aspects of the kernel had problems? I've been running
> Linux 2.0.34 and 2.0.35 for the last couple of months (35 for the last
> week) built under the last release of egcs 1.0.3a without any problems.
> Is there something I should be looking out for?

	To be perfectly honest with you, I don't have any personal experience
with the problem.  When notables such as Linus and Alan say don't do that,
I tend to take note.  I do believe though that it was configuration dependent
somehow, and that if you ran into the problem, you were pretty much assured
that your configuration would continue to have problems.  That is really
begining to stretch what I remember of the discussion, however...

> 	thanx & later,
> 
> 		Ben Scherrey
> 		Proteus Technologies, Inc.
> 
> Michael H. Warfield wrote:
> >         It has been stated on the linux-kernel list that egcs as well as
> > gcc 2.8.1 will NOT correctly compile the 2.0.x kernels but WILL correctly
> > compile the 2.1.x kernels.  That has been stated by several authoritative
> > developers including, but not limited to, Linus, Alan Cox, and (I think)
> > Dave Miller.  I would take that as a pretty firm statement.
> 


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