Re: Does anyone care about gcc 3.x support for x86 anymore?

[Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>]

H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Recently, we have seen an increasing number of problems with gcc 3.4 on
> x86; mostly due to poor constant propagation producing not just bad code
> but failing to properly eliminate what should be dead code.

I don't see any problem, as, if people are using gcc3, they are probably
not interested on the bleeding edge kernel. 

However, if the problems are just performance/dead code removal, I would 
just add a big warning if someone tries to compile x86 with it. I don't 
like very much the idea of having different minimum gcc requirements 
for each architecture, except if gcc is producing a broken code. 

Currently,Documentation/Changes list just a common minimal list for
everything - although the text describing gcc say that the "version 
requirements" may vary for each CPU type.

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Cheers,
Mauro