egcs 1.1.1 and outl

[Troy Benjegerdes]

On Thu, 24 Dec 1998, Bryan Christianson wrote:

> 
> I am running Kernel 2.0.130 compiled with egcs 1.0.2. I upgraded the
> compiler to egcs 1.1.1 and recompiled the driver I'm working on. The driver
> crashed the machine on its first call to outl with amessage saying
> something like 'invalid msr' and then a dump of all the registers.
> 
> I've reverted back to egcs 1.0.2 and the driver works fine.

what does gcc --version say?

I'm using egcs-2.91.58, and I'm having problems with booting... I'm still
trying to figure out what the problem is.

> 
> Is this a known issue - couldn't find anything in the FAQ.
> 
> I can reproduce it and get more detail if required. I presume this is a
> problem with the compiler unless there is something weird with the code for
> outl in <io.h>
> 

Can you get a dump of the registers via a serial console? (or copy them by
hand) and send it to the list?

> --
> Bryan Christianson
> email:		<mailto:bryanc at ihug.co.nz>
> Home Page:	<http://crash.ihug.co.nz/~bryanc>
> 
> 
> 
> 

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