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To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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Subject: Re: Does anyone care about gcc 3.x support for *x86* anymore?
From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
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Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 15:38:26 +0200
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"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> writes:
>
> If there isn't a reason to preserve support, I would like to consider
> discontinue support for using gcc 3 to compile x86 kernels.  If there is
> a valid use case, it would be good to know what it is.

I suspect there are still distributions around that use it as a standard
compiler. Wasn't it used in some major release of Debian?

-Andi
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ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only.