Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 03:44:26 +0100 From: Marc Lehmann To: Alan Cox , pgcc AT delorie DOT com, turinsky AT womensmusicnews DOT com, linux-kernel AT vger DOT rutgers DOT edu Subject: Re: Linux kernel 2.3.26 build fails with internal compiler error. Message-ID: <19991111034426.N14481@cerebro.laendle> Mail-Followup-To: Alan Cox , pgcc AT delorie DOT com, turinsky AT WomensMusicNews DOT com, linux-kernel AT vger DOT rutgers DOT edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: ; from Alan Cox on Wed, Nov 10, 1999 at 05:03:38PM +0000 X-Operating-System: Linux version 2.2.13 (root AT cerebro) (gcc version 2.95.1 19990816 (release)) Reply-To: pgcc AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: pgcc AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk On Wed, Nov 10, 1999 at 05:03:38PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > > open.c:129: internal error--insn does not satisfy its constraints: An internal compiler error is _always_ a bug in the compiler. You do not really need to know this, but if that happens again you now know whom to blame ;) > This is a pgcc error. pgcc is an offshoot of the "official" gnu compilers and > definitely has some problems with the kernel. If only the kernel would be written in GNU-C ;-> In any case, pgcc-1.1.2 is waay old, and, naturally, many bugs have been fixed in pgcc-2.95.2 (gove it a try ;). I also do not really recommend compiling the kernel with pgcc. It makes your kernel bigger but not necessarily faster. The kernel is such a good case of software engineering that compiler code quality does not have a large effect on speed. I'd guess upgrading compiler/binutils and removing the then bogus alignment switches would be more useful. -- -----==- | ----==-- _ | ---==---(_)__ __ ____ __ Marc Lehmann +-- --==---/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / pcg AT opengroup DOT org |e| -=====/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ XX11-RIPE --+ The choice of a GNU generation | |