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(+)

 --- gcc-4.0.0/libstdc++-v3/include/c_std/std_cstdio.h-orig	2005-04-29 00:08:41.000000000 -0500

 +++ gcc-4.0.0/libstdc++-v3/include/c_std/std_cstdio.h	2005-04-29 00:08:45.000000000 -0500

 @@ -142,7 +142,7 @@

    using ::vsprintf;

  }

 -#if _GLIBCXX_USE_C99

 +#if _GLIBCXX_USE_C99 || defined(__UCLIBC__)

  #undef snprintf

  #undef vfscanf