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From: "Justin P. Mattock" <justinmattock@gmail.com>
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To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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Subject: Re: Does anyone care about gcc 3.x support for *x86* anymore?
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On 05/19/2010 07:08 AM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 05/19/2010 06:38 AM, Andi Kleen wrote:
>> "H. Peter Anvin"<hpa@zytor.com>  writes:
>>>
>>> If there isn't a reason to preserve support, I would like to consider
>>> discontinue support for using gcc 3 to compile x86 kernels.  If there is
>>> a valid use case, it would be good to know what it is.
>>
>> I suspect there are still distributions around that use it as a standard
>> compiler. Wasn't it used in some major release of Debian?
>>
>> -Andi
>
> There are, but that doesn't mean it's relevant for people to compile
> bleeding-edge kernels with it.
>
> 	-hpa
>

no need for it here(using 4.6.0)..
Any distro still using this version
should upgrade(but who am I to say anything)

cheers.

Justin P. Mattock