Re: [PATCH 01/15] mm: poison struct page for ptlock

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>]

On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 04:26:13AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
>...
> > We really dont want to 
> >  rewrite spinlocks (or remove features) just to keep gcc 2.95 supported 
> >  for some more time. In fact, is there any 2.6 based distro that uses gcc 
> >  2.95?
> 
> I think some of the debian derivates might.  But who knows?

Debian 3.1 still ships a gcc 2.95, but the default compiler is gcc 3.3 .

Even Debian 3.0 (released in July 2002 and not supporting kernel 2.6) 
ships a gcc 3.0.4 (although it isn't the default compiler on !hppa).

Considering that kernel 2.6.0 was released two and a half years _after_ 
gcc 3.0, I do heavily doubt that there is any distribution that does 
both support kernel 2.6 and not ship any gcc >= 3.0 .

cu
Adrian

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