Bug#106716: gcc-3.0.1 refuses to compile Linux kernel
On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 08:27:14PM +0200, Petr Vandrovec wrote:
> Package: gcc-3.0
> Version: 3.0.1-0pre010723
>
> Hi,
> gcc-3.0.1 contains some really unreasonable default for -flimit-inline -
> probably something around 100, but I did not look at sources. Default is
> documented to be 10000 - 100 times larger than current default is.
> Is there some really good reason for this change? Alan Cox refused
> to change code to not inline, and I agree with him - 100 is completely
> stupid, backward incompatible limit. Even rebuilding kernel with
> -flimit-inline=200 fixed problem for my particular kernel, but going
> back to 10000 is definitely preferred variant.
>
> This causes that kernel does not link due to missing non-inline instances
> of 'extern inline...' calls - which are 'extern inline' just to catch this
> not inlining.
>
> I hope for quick reverting back.
Why not have the kernel Makefile pass "-flimit-inline=10000" explicitly?
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