Re: remove support for gcc < 3.2

Bill Davidsen
2005-08-13T03:15:31Z

Joe wrote:

>I'm for its removal. As for the gcc project "losing its way" consider
>that 3.4 has quite matured and also has much smaller binary size from
>3.3. 4.0 however is still too early in its development to come close
>to surpassing 3.4.
>

I consider that the compiler get bigger and slower with every release.
The tools used to find overlong paths in the kernel would work well for
gcc. Recent versions are painful, even with a decent SMP machine. The
people compiling on laptops could spend a day building with new versions.

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