GCC 3.2 ABI changes

[Stefan Reinauer]

* Ronald G Minnich <rminnich at lanl.gov> [021021 21:08]:
> OK, it turns out one change involves structure packing.
> 
> I'm not sure of the others, but I have confirmed that 3.2 will not
> build a working linuxbios and 2.96 will (on Redhat 8.0). The problems are
> in the MP table creation and/or parsing.

Have you tried to play with the strict aliasing option in gcc? This should
change gcc's behavior on packing data into structs or unions.

Stefan
  
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