From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 20 May 2002 22:45:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 20 May 2002 22:45:14 -0400 Received: from nycsmtp2out.rdc-nyc.rr.com ([24.29.99.227]:35991 "EHLO nycsmtp2out.rdc-nyc.rr.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 20 May 2002 22:45:13 -0400 Message-ID: <3CE9B37C.8010500@linuxhq.com> Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 22:39:56 -0400 From: John Weber Organization: Linux Headquarters User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0rc2) Gecko/20020510 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kurt Wall , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dkegel@ixiacom.com Subject: Re: Status of compiling 2.4 with gcc3.1? In-Reply-To: <3CE960BC.5858E63@ixiacom.com> <20020520223125.A629@marta> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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. -- -o) J o h n W e b e r /\\ john.weber@linuxhq.com _\/v http://www.linuxhq.com/people/weber/