Kernel development is always strange. Andrea Parri recently posted a patch to change the order of memory reads during multithreaded operation, such that if one read depended upon the next, the second ...

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I remember a thread titled 'what exactly is wrong with RedHat 7?' and the answer was a "broken" GCC compiler. And the suggestion was to just install a newer? GCC.<P>I, being a newbie, have no idea ...

The PathScale Compiler Suite includes C, C++, and Fortran 9X compilers for the 32- and 64-bit AMD64 architecture. Developed by PathScale Inc., the suite is compatible with the GNU gcc/g++ toolchain.