On 20090131.1659+0100, Vincent Sanders <vince@kyllikki.org> wrote:
[This]patch is a bit more involved. The patch addresses a gcc
regression in the 4.3 series (specifically this patch is against 4.3.2
which does *not* have a lot of other issues which affect kernel building)

GCC bug tracker has this issue as
#38453 http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=38453
#32044 http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=32044

comment 65 of #32044 has the fix being applied to gcc trunk as revision #142719

The attached patch is a backport to gcc 4.3.2 which allows this
version to be used to generate correct output for various ARM kernel
build (and indeed is teh correct answer in general).

/trunk/patches/gcc/4.3.2/360-fix-expensive-optimize.patch | 207 207 0 0 +++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 207 insertions(+)

diff -durN gcc-4.2.1.orig/boehm-gc/include/gc.h gcc-4.2.1/boehm-gc/include/gc.h

--- gcc-4.2.1.orig/boehm-gc/include/gc.h	2006-09-18 20:45:08.000000000 +0200

+++ gcc-4.2.1/boehm-gc/include/gc.h	2007-08-03 20:33:00.000000000 +0200

@@ -502,7 +502,7 @@

 #if defined(__linux__) || defined(__GLIBC__)

 # include <features.h>

 # if (__GLIBC__ == 2 && __GLIBC_MINOR__ >= 1 || __GLIBC__ > 2) \

-     && !defined(__ia64__)

+     && !defined(__ia64__) && !defined(__UCLIBC__)

 #   ifndef GC_HAVE_BUILTIN_BACKTRACE

 #     define GC_HAVE_BUILTIN_BACKTRACE

 #   endif