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Don't use '-fwrapv' compiler option: it's buggy in gcc-4.1.x
authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Sun, 12 Jul 2009 18:25:04 +0000 (11:25 -0700)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Mon, 20 Jul 2009 03:38:56 +0000 (20:38 -0700)
commitd7de59fb74b6e9b94af8b9fcbfdf39eeae3b27be
treef3e29056b5c72386fffabffe9a398d836f7f87d8
parent0457e83ceec2a048a330713a3ae828c2fcd6c9f2
Don't use '-fwrapv' compiler option: it's buggy in gcc-4.1.x

commit a137802ee839ace40079bebde24cfb416f73208a upstream.

This causes kernel images that don't run init to completion with certain
broken gcc versions.

This fixes kernel bugzilla entry:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13012

I suspect the gcc problem is this:
http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=28230

Fix the problem by using the -fno-strict-overflow flag instead, which
not only does not exist in the known-to-be-broken versions of gcc (it
was introduced later than fwrapv), but seems to be much less disturbing
to gcc too: the difference in the generated code by -fno-strict-overflow
are smaller (compared to using neither flag) than when using -fwrapv.

Reported-by: Barry K. Nathan <barryn@pobox.com>
Pushed-by: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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