From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Gerald Pfeifer Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 23:39:55 +0000 Subject: RE: linux-next: ia64 allmodconfig Message-Id: List-Id: References: <20080820233526.14c44ea6.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20080820233526.14c44ea6.akpm@linux-foundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 21 Aug 2008, Luck, Tony wrote: > Still need to figure out exactly what broke the build with a 3.x gcc to > see if there is an easy workaround. Though 4.0.0 was released over three > years ago ... is it time to give up on the ancient 3.x technology? Yes. I've got a hard time seeing why anyone would use GCC 3.x to build current Linux kernels for Itanium (except when using an acient distro as the base for kernel development). > [*] If you ignore that the 4.2.4 compiler is about 15% slower > than my trusty old 3.4.6 :-( The resulting binary should be faster, though. ;-) How about giving GCC 4.3 a try, by the way? IIRC, GCC 4.2 has some aliasing issues that have been addressed. Gerald