From: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
To: Joe <joecool1029@gmail.com>
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: remove support for gcc < 3.2
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 23:27:10 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <42FD688E.7090106@tmr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d4757e6005081017024c3bf3fd@mail.gmail.com>
Joe wrote:
>I'm for its removal. As for the gcc project "losing its way" consider
>that 3.4 has quite matured and also has much smaller binary size from
>3.3. 4.0 however is still too early in its development to come close
>to surpassing 3.4.
>
I consider that the compiler get bigger and slower with every release.
The tools used to find overlong paths in the kernel would work well for
gcc. Recent versions are painful, even with a decent SMP machine. The
people compiling on laptops could spend a day building with new versions.
--
bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
CTO TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-08-13 3:15 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 [this message]
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 ` [2.6 patch] remove support for gcc < 3.2 Dave Airlie
2005-08-04 6:54 ` 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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