From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Adrian Bunk Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2007 17:10:54 +0000 Subject: Re: [KJ] remove all content specific to GCC < 3.2?? Message-Id: <20070607171054.GO5500@stusta.de> List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org 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 -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed _______________________________________________ Kernel-janitors mailing list Kernel-janitors@lists.linux-foundation.org https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/kernel-janitors