From: "Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko" <phcoder@gmail.com>
To: The development of GNU GRUB <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Removing nested functions, part one of lots
Date: Tue, 01 Jan 2013 22:21:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <50E35359.7080403@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130101211446.GA18412@riva.dynamic.greenend.org.uk>
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On 01.01.2013 22:14, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 01, 2013 at 10:31:52AM -0800, Seth Goldberg wrote:
>> Yay!! Does this change the minimum GCC version needed to build?
>
> As Vladimir said, it probably isn't worth the effort at this point for
> us to wind back the version we recommend, as I suspect not enough of us
> can conveniently test with older versions on a regular basis. That
> said, since I think the increased GCC requirement was due to a bug
> related to nested functions, it may be that this improves the situation
> for those who need to use older versions despite our documented
> requirement.
>
Older than 4.2 versions of GCC can compile GRUB 2.00. It's just not
supported. As for 3.x, I don't think it's worth even going there
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Regards
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
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Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-01 14:42 [PATCH] Removing nested functions, part one of lots Colin Watson
2013-01-01 18:31 ` Seth Goldberg
2013-01-01 19:28 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2013-01-01 21:14 ` Colin Watson
2013-01-01 21:21 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko [this message]
2013-01-01 21:37 ` Andrey Borzenkov
2013-01-01 22:24 ` richardvoigt
2013-01-02 0:07 ` Colin Watson
2013-01-02 0:05 ` Colin Watson
2013-01-02 2:02 ` Colin Watson
2013-01-03 17:21 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2013-01-03 19:32 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2013-01-09 20:58 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
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