Bug#536354: linux-2.6: [s390,lenny] kernel panic during boot

[Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>]

On Friday 10 July 2009, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-07-10 at 09:51 +0200, Frans Pop wrote:
> > On Friday 10 July 2009, Frans Pop wrote:
> > > On Friday 10 July 2009, dann frazier wrote:
> > > > Maybe the -fwrapv change?
> > >
> > > Bingo. Makes a lot of sense too for an issue related to gcc
> > > version.
> >
> > I've proposed the attached patch on lkml:
> > http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/7/10/49.
>
> Perhaps we should be using -fno-strict-overflow instead of simply
> removing this option?

It looks like that option was only introduced with gcc 4.2. At least, I 
can't find it in the manual for gcc 4.1.

So it would not make any difference for this bug. It does make the case a 
bit stronger to change my check to also allow -fwrapv for gcc 4.2 though.