From: Dave Airlie <airlied@gmail.com>
To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] remove support for gcc < 3.2
Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2005 11:34:27 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <21d7e99705080318347d6b58d5@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050731222606.GL3608@stusta.de>
On 8/1/05, Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> wrote:
> This patch removes support for gcc < 3.2 .
>
> The advantages are:
> - reducing the number of supported gcc versions from 8 to 4 [1]
> allows the removal of several #ifdef's and workarounds
> - my impression is that the older compilers are only rarely
> used, so miscompilations of a driver with an old gcc might
> not be detected for a longer amount of time
>
>
Another disadvantage is you'll really piss of the VAX developers (all
3 of us!!!, well me not so much anymore...)
I think there is a gcc 4.x compiler nearly capable of building a
kernel for the VAX...
Dave.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-08-04 1:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-07-31 22:26 [2.6 patch] remove support for gcc < 3.2 Adrian Bunk
2005-07-31 22:36 ` David S. Miller
2005-07-31 23:08 ` Nigel Cunningham
2005-08-07 16:25 ` Denis Vlasenko
2005-08-10 19:40 ` Bill Davidsen
2005-08-11 0:02 ` Joe
2005-08-11 0:05 ` David S. Miller
2005-08-13 3:27 ` Bill Davidsen
2005-08-01 3:01 ` [2.6 patch] " Kurt Wall
2005-08-02 5:37 ` Willy Tarreau
2005-08-01 4:27 ` Miles Bader
2005-08-02 21:46 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2005-08-03 2:08 ` Gustavo Guillermo Pérez
2005-08-04 0:53 ` Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer
2005-08-04 20:34 ` networking problems when using gcc 4.0.1 Adrian Bunk
2005-08-04 1:34 ` Dave Airlie [this message]
2005-08-04 6:54 ` [2.6 patch] remove support for gcc < 3.2 Jan-Benedict Glaw
2005-08-04 20:38 ` Adrian Bunk
2005-08-05 21:14 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2005-08-05 21:30 ` Martin Drab
2005-08-05 21:37 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2005-08-13 9:21 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2005-08-12 7:40 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2005-08-12 10:40 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2005-08-12 12:29 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
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