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

["H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>]

On 05/19/2010 04:10 PM, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> 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.
> 

We already have different gcc version requirements, whether or not
they're written down is another matter...

	-hpa