[Xen-devel] GCC 3.0.4 incompatible (FAQ?)

[stevegt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]

It looks safe to say that gcc 3.0.4 is incompatible with xen and/or
xenolinux; this should probably be added to the FAQ.

I recompiled today's 1.2 with gcc 3.3.2 and that got rid of the hang at
partition check.

Steve


On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 08:18:27AM +0000, Keir Fraser wrote:
> > 
> > Hi All,
> > 
> > I built xen and xenolinux from this morning's 1.2 pull and attempted to
> > boot it on the same hardware where I've been running the 02 Feb 1.2
> > build.  It hangs in partition check.  Compiler for both builds is gcc
> > 3.0.4.  BIOS settings etc. are the same -- this node reboots back into
> > the 02 Feb build just fine.
> 
> Any chance you could try with a different version of GCC? This sounds
> possibly like an unexpected optimisation by the compiler (I saw a
> problem with very similar symptoms a coupel of weeks ago that affected
> mainly early GCC 3.x compilers).
> 
> Perhaps I should keep a suite of GCC installations lying around for
> local testing of this kind of bug. :-)
> 
>  -- Keir
>  
> > Xen is running well enough that help etc. works -- here're the boot
> > messages, followed by the output of several dump queries.  Let me know
> > what else you need.  
> > 
> > Steve
> 
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Stephen G. Traugott  (KG6HDQ)
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