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(+)

 # Bare metal config options

 config KERNEL_bare_metal

     select BARE_METAL

     help

       'Bare metal' refers to those programs that run without any kernel.

       You probably want to say 'y' here if you plan to use your compiler

       to build bootloaders. It is not yet suitable to build Linux kernels,

       though, because the APCI stuff relies on the target C library headers

       being available?!?!...