From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from list by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.71) id 1Tq9HK-0006JD-5F for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Jan 2013 16:21:42 -0500 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:33946) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Tq9HC-0006Hm-Jh for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Jan 2013 16:21:40 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Tq9HB-0005H5-KP for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Jan 2013 16:21:34 -0500 Received: from mail-ea0-f175.google.com ([209.85.215.175]:36583) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Tq9HB-0005Gv-Dj for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Jan 2013 16:21:33 -0500 Received: by mail-ea0-f175.google.com with SMTP id h11so5458917eaa.6 for ; Tue, 01 Jan 2013 13:21:32 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=x-received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type; bh=P142Ft38XLbVQK67yMjAnHhbNjr66HPy+/5ZIL5HJoA=; b=DINAGdjjo06M6sqwNZSbPg4o6A8nPDJD/yFaPY7R3q85QteFrE9BLtW9xAw6+PU1DZ ZklMpbsY06Px14997TR8jyOUHaLZAXyuvrGduAd1UkYKqdHLC7va9bwCf4mnyfnL5/4A QCrYdE+PfZatrHFx6bbTkEJ242oEGRMIx/fT8fd3F9EVd7JT5YiUGLrhu8HMAtmkfFWf h6sh4tT2LBWzuaZRA5sxfuOgmLQ6rE12OCDNz8rTSpyPZSmDTc/7T+FFUHbDGMghxZsk Q8ZB7jPOXzf9Pz+2yWXL2ZwloAl/BBjXjeZmbmwjL3iFIIN3r9KAw29oltUbmx2dGUnZ iXww== X-Received: by 10.14.205.199 with SMTP id j47mr119693766eeo.26.1357075292584; Tue, 01 Jan 2013 13:21:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from debian.x201.phnet (13.126.202.62.cust.bluewin.ch. [62.202.126.13]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 46sm93537628eeg.4.2013.01.01.13.21.31 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Tue, 01 Jan 2013 13:21:31 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <50E35359.7080403@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 01 Jan 2013 22:21:29 +0100 From: =?UTF-8?B?VmxhZGltaXIgJ8+GLWNvZGVyL3BoY29kZXInIFNlcmJpbmVua28=?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0.11) Gecko/20121122 Icedove/10.0.11 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: The development of GNU GRUB Subject: Re: [PATCH] Removing nested functions, part one of lots References: <20130101144204.GZ21216@riva.dynamic.greenend.org.uk> <6B24AAA7-66FE-43BF-AA87-599D4CD24C2E@oracle.com> <20130101211446.GA18412@riva.dynamic.greenend.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20130101211446.GA18412@riva.dynamic.greenend.org.uk> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4.1 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enigB7E3E60DB6B798477608BF11" X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 209.85.215.175 X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GNU GRUB List-Id: The development of GNU GRUB List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 01 Jan 2013 21:21:40 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigB7E3E60DB6B798477608BF11 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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? >=20 > 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 =20 --=20 Regards Vladimir '=CF=86-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko --------------enigB7E3E60DB6B798477608BF11 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iF4EAREKAAYFAlDjU1kACgkQNak7dOguQgliDQEAjxaOsFqNZhGyMvZ6/cQh7rEr mqVshu4bYDDMV+LCnLkBAIumc3CnDwIh21V0qcBDL9SNjQfUaDvJ0CceUG9lMnhe =lrFB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigB7E3E60DB6B798477608BF11--