[arch-dev-public] Compiler issue with kernel and ext3

[Aaron Griffin]

On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 8:09 AM, Dan McGee <dpmcgee at gmail.com> wrote:
> This is going to get us when we rebuild a kernel with gcc 4.3.1, so we
> should probably be aware:
>
> http://kerneltrap.org/Linux/Compiler_Oops
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=451068
>
> Looks like 2.6.25.6 is built with gcc 4.3.0 so we are safe now. Should
> we patch gcc with the upstream fix?

I'd say so. The kerneltrap article points fingers at GCC, and
indicates it's only an i686 issue. I'm for patching gcc to fix this
before we start recompiling things.