From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750939AbVHMDPb (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Aug 2005 23:15:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750889AbVHMDPb (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Aug 2005 23:15:31 -0400 Received: from mail.tmr.com ([64.65.253.246]:3031 "EHLO gaimboi.tmr.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750894AbVHMDPb (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Aug 2005 23:15:31 -0400 Message-ID: <42FD688E.7090106@tmr.com> Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 23:27:10 -0400 From: Bill Davidsen Organization: TMR Associates Inc, Schenectady NY User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Joe CC: akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: remove support for gcc < 3.2 References: <20050731222606.GL3608@stusta.de> <20050731.153631.70217457.davem@davemloft.net> <42FA5848.809@tmr.com> In-Reply-To: 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 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 CTO TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979