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SubjectRe: support of older compilers
Matti Aarnio wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 04:02:49PM -0500, Timothy Miller wrote:
>
>>I'm just curious about why there seems to be so much work going into
>>supporting a wide range of GCC versions. If people are willing to
>>download and compile a new kernel (and migrating from 2.4 to 2.6 is
>>non-trivial for some systems, like RH9), why aren't they willing to also
>>download and build a new compiler?
>
>
>
> How about those other architectures, than i386 ?
> Over the years I have learned, that while GCC may work OK in i386,
> the same version used in SPARC does produce bad code. This has
> bitten me multiple times.
>
>
> We weird people of other architechtures do tend to get "somewhat"
> conservative over the years in finding, and finally staying with
> a compiler that we have learned to work. Multiple burned,
> forever shy...

But is it Linux the biggest compiler bug finder?
So forcing a newer compiler in other architectures should
improve also the quality of code generation.

ciao
cate
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