From: alan on

I have reported this to the Fedora bugzilla. Not getting much traction on
the problem. Maybe someone here has an idea.

I have a x86_64 version of Fedora 13. I try and build a kernel under i386
and modpost segfaults every time. (Works fine on Fedora 12 and gcc 4.4.3.)

It does not matter if I use "make ARCH=x86", i386 and make, or any other
32 bit compile I have tried.

Here is the gcc info:

gcc -v
Using built-in specs.
Target: x86_64-redhat-linux
Configured with: ../configure --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man
--infodir=/usr/share/info
--with-bugurl=http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla --enable-bootstrap
--enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --enable-checking=release
--with-system-zlib --enable-__cxa_atexit --disable-libunwind-exceptions
--enable-gnu-unique-object
--enable-languages=c,c++,objc,obj-c++,java,fortran,ada
--enable-java-awt=gtk --disable-dssi
--with-java-home=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-gcj-1.5.0.0/jre
--enable-libgcj-multifile --enable-java-maintainer-mode
--with-ecj-jar=/usr/share/java/eclipse-ecj.jar --disable-libjava-multilib
--with-ppl --with-cloog --with-tune=generic --with-arch_32=i686
--build=x86_64-redhat-linux
Thread model: posix
gcc version 4.4.4 20100503 (Red Hat 4.4.4-2) (GCC)

This works under Fedora 12, but not under 13 with the exact same code and
commands. I have tested with 2.6.35-rc1, as well as other versions.

Any idea what they mangled in gcc 4.4.4 to cause this? So far the Fedora
people have claimed "it is a kernel problem".

Thanks.

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