Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Possible GCC contamination of Linux | Date | Sat, 25 Sep 1999 13:54:41 -0400 | From | Horst von Brand <> |
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o.r.c@p.e.l.l.p.o.r.t.l.a.n.d.o.r.u.s (david parsons) said: > In article <linux.kernel.199909222137.RAA32145@pincoya.inf.utfsm.cl>, > Horst von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl> wrote: > >"Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com> said: > >> gcc 2.7.2, gcc 2.7.3, and gcc 2.8.1
> >Then those are broken, as I stated. Note that all of them are obsolete and > >non-maintained.
> If ``-no-builtins'' deals with the problem with the obsolete > compiler that's the only compiler trusted to build the kernel, > what's the problem? This is, after all, the real world, and > it's occasionally useful to work properly with the tools that > you have.
gcc-2.7.2.3 for kernel 2.0.x egcs-1.1.2 for kernel 2.2.x
Doesn't that work? Using later gcc's might break stuff if you aren't careful. gcc-2.96 snapshots work fine for me with 2.3.18ac's
You can't just hang on ancient tools forever either. -- Horst von Brand vonbrand@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl Casilla 9G, Viña del Mar, Chile +56 32 672616
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