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From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>
To: Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com>
Cc: John Bradford <john@grabjohn.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Recommended compiler version
Date: Sat, 29 May 2004 16:31:35 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040529143135.GR16099@fs.tum.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040529161247.A19214@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com>

On Sat, May 29, 2004 at 04:12:47PM +0200, Francois Romieu wrote:
>...
> It makes no sense to religiously recommended 2.95.3 if it is known broken.

In my experience, 2.95.3 isn't more broken than the average 3.3 
compiler.

> If nobody comes with a better approach, I'll simply submit a patch to
> remove the 2.95.3 recommendation (+ #error for the driver as suggested by ak).

The common solution in the kernel for such issues is to change the code 
to compile correctly with all supported compilers.

This might not be a perfect solution, but otherwise different drivers 
might require different compiler versions resulting in a chaos.

Whether support for gcc 2.95 should be dropped is a discussion for 2.7.

> Ueimor

cu
Adrian

-- 

       "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out
        of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days.
       "Only a promise," Lao Er said.
                                       Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed


  reply	other threads:[~2004-05-29 14:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-05-29  9:16 Recommended compiler version Francois Romieu
2004-05-29  9:52 ` Francois Romieu
2004-05-29 13:30   ` John Bradford
2004-05-29 14:12     ` Francois Romieu
2004-05-29 14:31       ` Adrian Bunk [this message]
2004-05-29 14:57         ` John Bradford
2004-05-30  1:18           ` George Georgalis
2004-05-29 14:53       ` John Bradford
2004-05-29 16:58         ` Francois Romieu
     [not found] <218aB-15c-17@gated-at.bofh.it>
2004-05-29 10:51 ` Andi Kleen
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-05-29 14:42 Dan Kegel
2004-05-29 23:55 ` Karim Yaghmour
2004-05-29 23:20   ` Dan Kegel
2004-05-30  0:40     ` Karim Yaghmour
2004-05-30  0:38   ` Karim Yaghmour
2004-05-30 10:37 ` John Bradford

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