Re: RFC: drop support for gcc < 4.0

Adrian Bunk
2007-08-21T20:22:19Z

On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 01:08:25PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
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> On Tue, 21 Aug 2007, Adrian Bunk wrote:
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> > > Bogus warnings should be relatively harmless.
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> > How many kernel developers use such old gcc versions?
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> It's NOT about "kernel developers".
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> It's about random people testing kernels.
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> If we make it harder for people to test kernels, we're going to lose. So
> no, I vote for *not* cutting off old gcc versions unless it's absolutely
> fatal.

How many people e.g. test -rc kernels compiled with gcc 3.2?

> Linus

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Adrian

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