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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Alexander van Heukelum <heukelum@fastmail.fm>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
	Alexander van Heukelum <heukelum@mailshack.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: always_inline wrapper for x86's test_bit
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 14:28:02 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080414122802.GA20350@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1208175845.22460.1247749229@webmail.messagingengine.com>


* Alexander van Heukelum <heukelum@fastmail.fm> wrote:

> B.T.W., debian and ubuntu don't provide gcc-3.2 packages. Is there a 
> good reason why gcc-3.2.3 (5 years old in a week) should still be 
> supported?

we normally desupport given gcc versions only if their support in the 
kernel is very difficult and leads to lots of uglinesses, or if a gcc 
version is known to fatally miscompile the kernel, with no workaround 
available.

i.e. we try not to break people's build setups (folks with a specific 
gcc version in a cross-build setup), without a good reason.

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2008-04-14 12:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-13 11:23 [PATCH] x86: always_inline wrapper for x86's test_bit Alexander van Heukelum
2008-04-13 16:58 ` Andi Kleen
2008-04-13 18:03   ` Alexander van Heukelum
2008-04-13 18:16     ` Andi Kleen
2008-04-14 12:24       ` Alexander van Heukelum
2008-04-14 12:28         ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2008-04-14 12:34         ` Andi Kleen
2008-04-14  7:52 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-14 13:49   ` Alexander van Heukelum

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