Re: [PATCH 1/19] MUTEX: Introduce simple mutex implementation

Andrew Morton
2005-12-13T09:15:40Z

Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 01:01:26AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> wrote:
> > >
> > > Can you please apply the following patch then?
> > >
> > > Remove -Wdeclaration-after-statement
> >
> > OK.
> >
> > Thus far I have this:
>
> Would it be possible to drop support for gcc 3.0 too?

Spose so - I don't know what people are using out there.

> AFAIK it has never been widely used. If we assume 3.1+ minimum it has the
> advantage that named assembly arguments work, which make
> the inline assembly often a lot easier to read and maintain.

There are a few places in the tree which refuse to compile with 3.1 and 3.2.