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-4.1.0/libstdc++-v3/include/ext/rope.mps	2006-03-24 01:49:51 +0100

 +++ gcc-4.1.0/libstdc++-v3/include/ext/rope	2006-03-24 01:49:37 +0100

 @@ -59,6 +59,9 @@

  #include <bits/allocator.h>

  #include <ext/hash_fun.h>

 +/* cope w/ index defined as macro, SuSv3 proposal */

 +#undef index

 +

  # ifdef __GC

  #   define __GC_CONST const

  # else

 --- gcc-4.1.0/libstdc++-v3/include/ext/ropeimpl.h.mps	2006-03-24 01:50:04 +0100

 +++ gcc-4.1.0/libstdc++-v3/include/ext/ropeimpl.h	2006-03-24 01:50:28 +0100

 @@ -53,6 +53,9 @@

  #include <ext/memory> // For uninitialized_copy_n

  #include <ext/numeric> // For power

 +/* cope w/ index defined as macro, SuSv3 proposal */

 +#undef index

 +

  namespace __gnu_cxx

  {

    using std::size_t;