Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 26 Oct 2003 18:16:50 +0100 | From | Marco Roeland <> | Subject | Re: compile-time error in 2.6.0-test9 |
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On Sunday 26 Oktober 2003 at 11:35 uur Bill Yerazunis wrote:
> What's the recommended version of GCC these days?
According to Documentation/Changes the 'bottomline' gcc (at least on i386) is gcc 2.95.3 but 2.95.4 from Debian or 2.96 from RedHat and Mandrake should be alright. A problem is that they are no longer actively maintained so bugs aren't fixed. :-(
Just recently gcc 3.3.2 was released, so that or the latest from one's distribution is 'current' and should work fine. Be warned though that although they produce better code (and even that is sometimes disputed!) and give better warnings, compilation is a lot slower.
The Linux kernel has a lot of handcrafted optimised code, so no gcc version is going to outsmart that easily anyway, and also very important is the amount of testing a kernel gets. Better a somewhat less optimal compiler but which has had a lot of testing, and so has it bugs known and 'workarounded', than a potential 'flyer' with unknown new bugs.
But for userspace applications I'd recommend gcc 3.x wholeheartedly, for g++ especially. -- Marco Roeland - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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