Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> writes:

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>> I don't think this is worth even trying to fix. This is terminal compiler 
>> breakage. Make a bug-report to the gcc people, the inline asm stuff has 
>> been totally buggered by that compiler version.
>> 
>> If it mis-compiled that part, it probably miscompiled a lot of other 
>> things too.
>
> I just checked with today's gcc 4.2 (070711) freshly compiled and from a quick inspection 
> the code looks correct again. So perhaps it has been already fixed? 

No, debian's 4.2-20070707-1 is made from another branch (branches/ubuntu/gcc-4_2-branch)

CC'ing Debian GCC Maintainer, he will be interested.
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