latest kernel update and gcc

[Per Bjornsson]

On Mon, 2005-04-11 at 20:56 -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 05:24:04PM -0700, Florin Andrei wrote:
>  > According to this bugzilla entry:
>  > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=154467
>  > 
>  > Description of problem:
>  > This kernel update appears to have been built with gcc-3.4.3,
>  > while the compiler currently available on FC3 is gcc-3.4.2
> 
> 3.4.3 is in updates-testing.

I'm actually surprised that this would matter at all. I'm currently
using the Madwifi driver, compiled for the latest kernel using the
current gcc (3.4.2-6.fc3). As far as I can tell, the kernel vermagic
should only care about GCC major and minor numbers, not micro version
numbers (my modules claim
vermagic:       2.6.11-1.14_FC3 686 REGPARM 4KSTACKS gcc-3.4 ) and if
there has been a C API break in a stable bugfix release I'm sure the GCC
developers want to know it! That's definitely not supposed to happen...
¯Hy 
/Per

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Per Bjornsson <perbj at stanford.edu>
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Applied Physics, Stanford University