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    fbmon: work around compiler bug in gcc-2.4.2 · 3730793d
    Linus Torvalds authored
    
    
    There's some odd bug in gcc-4.2 where it miscompiles a simple loop whent
    he loop counter is of type 'unsigned char' and it should count to 128.
    
    The compiler will incorrectly decide that a trivial loop like this:
    
    	unsigned char i, ...
    
    	for (i = 0; i < 128; i++) {
    		..
    
    is endless, and will compile it to a single instruction that just
    branches to itself.
    
    This was triggered by the addition of '-fno-strict-overflow', and we
    could play games with compiler versions and go back to '-fwrapv'
    instead, but the trivial way to avoid it is to just make the loop
    induction variable be an 'int' instead.
    
    Thanks to Krzysztof Oledzki for reporting and testing and to Troy Moure
    for digging through assembler differences and finding it.
    
    Reported-and-tested-by: default avatarKrzysztof Oledzki <olel@ans.pl>
    Found-by: default avatarTroy Moure <twmoure@szypr.net>
    Gcc-bug-acked-by: default avatarIan Lance Taylor <iant@google.com>
    Cc: stable@kernel.org
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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