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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo/FreeBSD available for Sparc64
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 10:06:32
Message-Id: 200610310503.42392.vapier@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo/FreeBSD available for Sparc64 by Roy Marples
1 On Tuesday 31 October 2006 04:41, Roy Marples wrote:
2 > All modules have to be built into the kernel - kldload causes kernel panics
3 > about memory not aligned. I'm pretty sure this is gcc-4 related
4
5 most likely ... a lot of misalignment issues were found in the linux kernel
6 after moving to gcc-4 (in fact, there are still misalignment crap in parts)
7
8 so this is almost certainly bugs in the FreeBSD code rather than bad code
9 generation on the part of gcc-4
10
11 <=gcc-3.4 was much safer when it came to default alignment so no one noticed
12 -mike