Comment 44 for bug 21144

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Debian Bug Importer (debzilla) wrote :

Message-ID: <email address hidden>
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 09:33:57 +0200
From: Matthias Klose <email address hidden>
To: Frans Pop <email address hidden>, <email address hidden>,
        <email address hidden>
CC: <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: Bug#322723: 'ip route' kernel problem w/ gcc-4.0

severity 322723 important
thanks

there's a workaround, and gcc-3.4 is known to work as well. Is there
any reason to use gcc-4.0 for kernel builds on all architectures?

Frans Pop writes:
> I've reassigned this bug from the kernel to gcc-4.0 as we feel that the
> solution chosen in the kernel packaging is not really a fix, but a
> workaround.
> As tests have shown that the problem does not exist when the same kernel
> is compiled with gcc-3.3, the real bug is likely in gcc-4.0.
>
> I've "found" the bug for 4.0.1-3 after looking at the dates for relevant
> uploads, but as uploads were quite frequent, I could be off by a version
> either way.
>
> Please see the bug history for details.
>
> Cheers,
> FJP