[RFC] Disallow compilation with gcc 3.2.3 (was: Re: 2.5.69-mm6: pccard oops while booting:)

Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
2003-05-22T13:11:08Z

Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote:
> I've read the announcement of gcc 3.3 and saw that gcc 3.2 is not yet
> supported for linux kernel compilations (I've been using Red Hat's
> gcc-3.2.3-4 to compile 2.5.69-mm6). So I thought, what would happen if I
> use gcc 2.96 to compile the kernel instead?
>
> And voilà... I've compiled 2.5.69-mm6 with Red Hat's 2.96.118 and now,
> I'm unable to reproduce the pccard oops you've been trying to chase
> down. Does this mean the pccard oops was caused by a compiler bug?

Nobody has found an error in the code we talked about, so a compiler bug
in gcc 3.2.3 seems to be the only explanation.

Thoughts?