* [parisc-linux] gcc-3.x and the kernel
@ 2001-11-19 19:55 Markus Grabert
2001-11-19 19:59 ` Randolph Chung
2001-11-19 21:34 ` Alan Cox
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From: Markus Grabert @ 2001-11-19 19:55 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: parisc-linux
Hi,
I'm a little bit confused.
Some ports (such as parisc, sparc, sparc64 ...) use gcc-3.x in their
distributions, even to compile the linux kernel.
IMHO they use the lastest gcc since it has better support and more recent
bug fixes for the according platforms.
But I've read that gcc-3.0.x is not officially supported as a kernel
compiler, since is still has some bugs. Are these bugs just x86 related
(I doubt it) or do you accept the risk that gcc might produce garbage ?
Does this actually happen ?
greetings max
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* Re: [parisc-linux] gcc-3.x and the kernel
2001-11-19 19:55 [parisc-linux] gcc-3.x and the kernel Markus Grabert
@ 2001-11-19 19:59 ` Randolph Chung
2001-11-19 21:34 ` Alan Cox
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From: Randolph Chung @ 2001-11-19 19:59 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Markus Grabert; +Cc: parisc-linux
> Some ports (such as parisc, sparc, sparc64 ...) use gcc-3.x in their
> distributions, even to compile the linux kernel.
> IMHO they use the lastest gcc since it has better support and more recent
> bug fixes for the according platforms.
> But I've read that gcc-3.0.x is not officially supported as a kernel
> compiler, since is still has some bugs. Are these bugs just x86 related
> (I doubt it) or do you accept the risk that gcc might produce garbage ?
> Does this actually happen ?
gcc 3.0.2 is officially released by the FSF. We have been using it for
building both kernel and user space apps for some time. While there are
still some occasional bugs, in general it seems to be working well.
afaik the 3.x compilers are the only ones available for parisc-linux.
There are no 2.9x compilers for this platform.
randolph
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* Re: [parisc-linux] gcc-3.x and the kernel
2001-11-19 19:55 [parisc-linux] gcc-3.x and the kernel Markus Grabert
2001-11-19 19:59 ` Randolph Chung
@ 2001-11-19 21:34 ` Alan Cox
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From: Alan Cox @ 2001-11-19 21:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Markus Grabert; +Cc: parisc-linux
> But I've read that gcc-3.0.x is not officially supported as a kernel
> compiler, since is still has some bugs. Are these bugs just x86 related
> (I doubt it) or do you accept the risk that gcc might produce garbage ?
The advice is basically x86 - for example gcc 3.0.1 gives a compiler error
trying to build some 2.4 drivers right now. With the ports it varies - the
parisc tree uses its own compiler chain based on gcc 3.
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