Re: gcc 4.8

[Arnaud Patard (Rtp) <arnaud.patard@rtp-net.org>]

Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> writes:

Hi,

> On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 07:27:24PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote:
>> Hi
>> 
>> I did a first build of Linux 3.9 with gcc 4.8. It works fine on s390x,
>> however I found a weird not longer reproducible bug in s390. I think
>> about using it as default pretty fast for all architectures.
>
> I think Arnaud said it was generating unbootable kernels for some
> ARM configurations.  I don't remember any details, though.

Yeah. The day we talked about switching to 4.8 for arm*, this mail got
sent to linux-arm-kernel:
http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2013-June/176334.html

But no answer so far.

Arnaud