Status of compiling 2.4 with gcc3.1?

Status of compiling 2.4 with gcc3.1?

[Dan Kegel]

How far from wise is it to compile the 2.4.19-prex
kernel with gcc3.1?  Is there a list of known issues?
Only report of trouble I've seen so far is
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=linux.kernel.5.1.0.14.2.20020515015506.02749780%40pop.cus.cam.ac.uk
and that's just a compile-time fatal error building ntfs.
- Dan

Re: Status of compiling 2.4 with gcc3.1?

[Kurt Wall]

Scribbling feverishly on May 20, Dan Kegel managed to emit:
> How far from wise is it to compile the 2.4.19-prex
> kernel with gcc3.1?  Is there a list of known issues?
> Only report of trouble I've seen so far is
> http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=linux.kernel.5.1.0.14.2.20020515015506.02749780%40pop.cus.cam.ac.uk
> and that's just a compile-time fatal error building ntfs.

I'm running 2.4.18 built with GCC 3.1 and having no trouble that
I've seen.

Kurt
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Re: Status of compiling 2.4 with gcc3.1?

[John Weber]

Kurt Wall wrote:
> Scribbling feverishly on May 20, Dan Kegel managed to emit:
> 
>>How far from wise is it to compile the 2.4.19-prex
>>kernel with gcc3.1?  Is there a list of known issues?
>>Only report of trouble I've seen so far is
>>http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=linux.kernel.5.1.0.14.2.20020515015506.02749780%40pop.cus.cam.ac.uk
>>and that's just a compile-time fatal error building ntfs.
> 
> 
> I'm running 2.4.18 built with GCC 3.1 and having no trouble that
> I've seen.
> 
> Kurt

I'm running both 2.4.19-pre8 and 2.5.16, and, though both were compiled 
with gcc 3.1, I am having no problems.

Although I remember someone saying that gcc 3.1 produced larger 
binaries, and inefficient code in some places.

Also, gcc 3.1 generates lots of warnings because of things like 
multi-line string literals, etc.

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