Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 29 May 2004 15:53:44 +0100 | From | John Bradford <> | Subject | Re: Recommended compiler version |
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Quote from Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com>: > John Bradford <john@grabjohn.com> : > [...] > > In my opinion, code that doesn't compile with 2.95.3 is broken - 2.95.3 is > > If you are asking for technical details, please read the thread ending > at: http://oss.sgi.com/projects/netdev/archive/2004-05/msg00440.html > > [...] > > Basically, 2.95.3 is something of a point of reference, so it only makes > > sense to throw it out once we have a new point of reference. > > It makes no sense to religiously recommended 2.95.3 if it is known broken.
The _code_ is broken if it doesn't compile with the recommended compiler, not the compiler itself.
> If nobody comes with a better approach, I'll simply submit a patch to > remove the 2.95.3 recommendation (+ #error for the driver as suggested by ak).
Please leave the recommendation unless it's being replaced by a new one.
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