> On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 12:07:08PM +0900, Namhyung Kim wrote:
>
> > I've sent basically same patch to x86 folks [1] and they said there is a
> > possiblility of miscompilation on gcc 3. I am not sure the same goes
> > here on mips but it might be safer to keep it. Sorry for the noise ;-(
> >
> > [1]
http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/8/8/138
>
> So in a distant future when GCC 3.x will finally be retired we will be
> able to apply this patch, sigh. I'll drop your patch for the time being
> and add a comment to the code.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Ralf
