From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261743AbVHDBjj (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Aug 2005 21:39:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261741AbVHDBgv (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Aug 2005 21:36:51 -0400 Received: from rproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.170.204]:48064 "EHLO rproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261738AbVHDBed convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Aug 2005 21:34:33 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=DU5s2iGOZQab3EGkPyGNhrtOAV9J1+WIfznV1KWKGbpaooq2b90D52t0NUbKwslmb48rG3dkIUsueLbmo2QhNNNmHdw8fo1WXw26+TCNVdNCXnX8C1N5c1QYLzE+onyKnbDh0NIy6AOgU462QmX9ERfZm53BiGcJv+p/n3uHv3k= Message-ID: <21d7e99705080318347d6b58d5@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2005 11:34:27 +1000 From: Dave Airlie Reply-To: Dave Airlie To: Adrian Bunk Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] remove support for gcc < 3.2 Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20050731222606.GL3608@stusta.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Content-Disposition: inline References: <20050731222606.GL3608@stusta.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 8/1/05, Adrian Bunk 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.