On Tue, 8 Apr 1997 17:47:21 -0400 (EDT) 
 Dan Jacobowitz <dan@west.chwest.org> wrote:

 > For some bizarre reason, as close as I can tell, this is in the printf
 > call in panic whihc does some very strange formatting techniques.
 > I'm about to see if gcc 2.5.8 can handle this...then I go in search of an
 > old mirror with 2.6.3.  Onwards.....

If you are not compiling with the in-tree gcc, you must use -Wno-format.

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