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-4.1.2.orig/gcc/Makefile.in	2006-11-01 15:40:44.000000000 +0100

 +++ gcc-4.1.2/gcc/Makefile.in	2007-03-04 23:34:32.000000000 +0100

 @@ -2522,7 +2522,7 @@

  # FIXME: writing proper dependencies for this is a *LOT* of work.

  libbackend.o : $(OBJS-common:.o=.c) $(out_file) \

    insn-config.h insn-flags.h insn-codes.h insn-constants.h \

 -  insn-attr.h  $(DATESTAMP) $(BASEVER) $(DEVPHASE)

 +  insn-attr.h  $(DATESTAMP) $(BASEVER) $(DEVPHASE) gcov-iov.h

  	$(CC) $(ALL_CFLAGS) $(ALL_CPPFLAGS) \

  	  -DTARGET_NAME=\"$(target_noncanonical)\" \

  	  -DLOCALEDIR=\"$(localedir)\" \