Bug#336022: this is actually binutils bug

[Stefan Schmidt <zaphodb@zaphods.net>]

On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 01:30:39PM +0100, Thiemo Seufer wrote:
> > I've seen such an error too. I don't think this is gcc-2.95 bug, since
> > gcc-3.3 and gcc-3.4 fail with the same error message.
> > This is binutils (version 2.16.1cvs20050902-1 and newer) bug (feature?).
> > With binutils from testing (version 2.16.1-2) it is possible to compile
> > the kernel with any gcc version (2.95, 3.3, 3.4).
> 
> Binutils tightened on ix86 the checks for potentially invalid operands
> recently, thus, without having looked at the code, I'm inclined to claim
> this is a problem in kernel 2.4.31.

Ah yes, i reported it against gcc.2-95 because i was previously unable to
compile 2.4.31-rc1 with gcc4 and Adrian Bunk told me that gcc4 is not
supported with kernel 2.4 so i tried 2.95, you know the rest of the story... ;)
-> http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5478

	Stefan
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