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(+)

 Original patch from gentoo: gentoo/src/patchsets/gcc/4.3.1/uclibc/90_all_103-uclibc-conf-noupstream.patch

 diff -durN gcc-4.3.1.orig/gcc/config.gcc gcc-4.3.1/gcc/config.gcc

 --- gcc-4.3.1.orig/gcc/config.gcc	2008-06-10 14:58:09.000000000 +0200

 +++ gcc-4.3.1/gcc/config.gcc	2008-06-10 14:58:36.000000000 +0200

 @@ -2149,7 +2149,7 @@

          ;;

  sh-*-elf* | sh[12346l]*-*-elf* | sh*-*-kaos* | \

  sh-*-symbianelf* | sh[12346l]*-*-symbianelf* | \

 -  sh-*-linux* | sh[346lbe]*-*-linux* | \

 +  sh*-*-linux* | sh[346lbe]*-*-linux* | \

    sh-*-netbsdelf* | shl*-*-netbsdelf* | sh5-*-netbsd* | sh5l*-*-netbsd* | \

     sh64-*-netbsd* | sh64l*-*-netbsd*)

  	tmake_file="${tmake_file} sh/t-sh sh/t-elf"