Re: [KJ] remove all content specific to GCC < 3.2??

From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
To: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [KJ] remove all content specific to GCC < 3.2??
Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2007 17:10:54 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070607171054.GO5500@stusta.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0706071212280.29467@localhost.localdomain>

On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 12:17:42PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> 
>   is it relatively safe to strip the kernel tree of any content that
> is conditional upon unacceptably old versions of GCC?
> 
>   the header file linux/compiler.h already rejects the use of old gnu
> compilers:
>...
> so clearly any gcc < 3.2 is dead in the water, which suggests that any
> content dependent on that can be tossed as well.  as a starting point,
> one can search for the macro __GNUC_MINOR__ to find:
>...
>   seems like a lot of that can be removed.  anyone want to deal with
> that if it seems like a viable project?

None of the lines you have quoted could be removed because they'd deal 
with gcc < 3.2 (the compiler.h and init/main.c #error's should stay).

I already removed all #ifdef's dealing with gcc < 3.2 when the gcc 
requirement was raised to 3.2

> rday
>...

cu
Adrian

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