From: "Giacomo A. Catenazzi" <cate@debian.org>
To: Matti Aarnio <matti.aarnio@zmailer.org>
Cc: Timothy Miller <miller@techsource.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: support of older compilers
Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2004 22:37:10 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <41894F86.7070405@debian.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041103211714.GP12275@mea-ext.zmailer.org>
Matti Aarnio wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 04:02:49PM -0500, Timothy Miller wrote:
>
>>I'm just curious about why there seems to be so much work going into
>>supporting a wide range of GCC versions. If people are willing to
>>download and compile a new kernel (and migrating from 2.4 to 2.6 is
>>non-trivial for some systems, like RH9), why aren't they willing to also
>>download and build a new compiler?
>
>
>
> How about those other architectures, than i386 ?
> Over the years I have learned, that while GCC may work OK in i386,
> the same version used in SPARC does produce bad code. This has
> bitten me multiple times.
>
>
> We weird people of other architechtures do tend to get "somewhat"
> conservative over the years in finding, and finally staying with
> a compiler that we have learned to work. Multiple burned,
> forever shy...
But is it Linux the biggest compiler bug finder?
So forcing a newer compiler in other architectures should
improve also the quality of code generation.
ciao
cate
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-11-03 21:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 76+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-11-03 21:02 support of older compilers Timothy Miller
2004-11-03 21:13 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-11-03 21:22 ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-11-03 23:06 ` Adam Heath
2004-11-03 23:30 ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-11-04 16:50 ` Adam Heath
2004-11-04 17:00 ` Chris Friesen
2004-11-04 18:17 ` Adam Heath
2004-11-05 20:00 ` Willy Tarreau
2004-11-05 20:28 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-11-05 20:31 ` Willy Tarreau
2004-11-04 17:04 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-11-04 18:15 ` Adam Heath
2004-11-04 18:31 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-11-04 21:56 ` Adam Heath
2004-11-04 18:54 ` Ian Romanick
2004-11-04 19:48 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-11-04 20:14 ` Giuseppe Bilotta
2004-11-05 20:04 ` Willy Tarreau
2004-11-04 19:36 ` Ian Hastie
2004-11-04 20:02 ` Ioan Ionita
2004-11-04 20:03 ` Adrian Bunk
2004-11-04 20:08 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-11-04 19:38 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-11-04 21:47 ` Adam Heath
2004-11-04 21:55 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-11-04 23:39 ` Adam Heath
2004-11-04 23:52 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-11-05 1:41 ` Andries Brouwer
2004-11-05 15:41 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-11-05 15:47 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-11-05 16:22 ` linux-os
2004-11-05 19:50 ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-11-05 20:28 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-11-05 21:59 ` Grzegorz Kulewski
2004-11-05 22:08 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-11-05 23:02 ` [PATCH] change Kconfig entry for RAMFS (Was: Re: support of older compilers) Grzegorz Kulewski
2004-11-05 23:12 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-11-05 23:44 ` [PATCH] change Kconfig entry for RAMFS Grzegorz Kulewski
2004-11-06 0:48 ` Grzegorz Kulewski
2004-11-09 23:24 ` Matt Mackall
2004-11-10 10:40 ` Grzegorz Kulewski
2004-11-10 20:50 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-11-05 23:27 ` [PATCH] change Kconfig entry for RAMFS (Was: Re: support of older compilers) DaMouse
2004-11-05 23:49 ` Grzegorz Kulewski
2004-11-06 13:59 ` DaMouse
2004-11-05 22:08 ` support of older compilers Hua Zhong
2004-11-06 8:38 ` Willy Tarreau
2004-11-06 9:43 ` Hugh Dickins
2004-11-06 11:04 ` Willy Tarreau
2004-11-05 22:37 ` support of older compilers [u] Martin Schlemmer [c]
2004-11-05 23:14 ` Grzegorz Kulewski
2004-11-05 23:38 ` chibiryuu
2004-11-06 12:07 ` support of older compilers Andries Brouwer
2004-11-06 17:33 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-11-06 19:36 ` Adrian Bunk
2004-11-06 21:41 ` bloat Andries Brouwer
2004-11-06 22:07 ` bloat Adrian Bunk
2004-11-06 21:30 ` bloat Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2004-11-07 13:37 ` bloat Frank van Maarseveen
2004-11-05 20:20 ` support of older compilers Willy Tarreau
2004-11-05 22:19 ` Adam Heath
2004-11-04 22:36 ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-11-04 20:48 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-11-04 22:33 ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-11-03 21:17 ` Matti Aarnio
2004-11-03 21:37 ` Giacomo A. Catenazzi [this message]
2004-11-03 21:57 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-11-04 2:16 ` Miles Bader
2004-11-03 22:07 ` Chris Wedgwood
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2004-11-04 19:33 Clayton Weaver
2004-11-05 15:36 ` Nix
2004-11-04 22:49 Xose Vazquez Perez
2004-11-06 9:07 Clayton Weaver
2004-11-09 17:39 ` Nix
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2004-11-06 10:15 ` Anton Ertl
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