From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from rv-out-0910.google.com ([209.85.198.187]:60874 "EHLO rv-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752264AbXHVImE (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Aug 2007 04:42:04 -0400 Received: by rv-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id k20so102910rvb for ; Wed, 22 Aug 2007 01:42:03 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <6bffcb0e0708220142t1d3f5d66o5a43b1b1c4565ed2@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 10:42:03 +0200 From: "Michal Piotrowski" Subject: Re: RFC: drop support for gcc < 4.0 In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20070821132038.GA22254@ff.dom.local> <20070821093103.3c097d4a.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> <20070821173550.GC30705@stusta.de> <6101e8c40708211441g2ae20412u877082eb611f595e@mail.gmail.com> <20070822080854.GD1684@ff.dom.local> Sender: linux-arch-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Jan Engelhardt Cc: Jarek Poplawski , Oliver Pinter , Adrian Bunk , Randy Dunlap , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hi, On 22/08/07, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > On Aug 22 2007 10:08, Jarek Poplawski wrote: > >On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 09:57:04AM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > >> > >> On Aug 21 2007 23:41, Oliver Pinter wrote: > >> >I think it's bad idea, when removing support for gcc3.x, while some > >> >people using debian 3.1 at now and under debian 3.1 the default > >> >comiler is 3.3.5, when I good know or not!? > >> > >> They always lag behind. > > > >Yes! Probably that's why they are so darn good! > > ISTR that even Ubuntu overtook Debian... what about Debian 4.x? They are using gcc 4.1.1 as default http://packages.debian.org/stable/devel/gcc Anyway, IMO dropping support for a compiler just because of warnings it is a bad thing. Regards, Michal -- LOG http://www.stardust.webpages.pl/log/