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SubjectRe: Time to remove old gcc support


On Mon, 22 Apr 1996, Andrew C. Esh wrote:

> H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > Well, Alan Cox has reported that GCC 2.5.8 generates incorrect code
> > for the networking stuff. That means people will try to compile the
> > kernel with it, and get bitten by bugs later. Doesn't seem very
> > stable to me.
> >
> > -hpa
>
> Can't we have the make check the compiler version, and fail if it's too old?
>


I'm using gcc 2.5.8 and apart missing "bad_user_access_length" in ksyms.c
I don't see any problems.


Jacek Zapala





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