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SubjectRe: RFC: drop support for gcc < 4.0
On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 01:08:25PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, 21 Aug 2007, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > >
> > > Bogus warnings should be relatively harmless.
> >
> > How many kernel developers use such old gcc versions?
>
> It's NOT about "kernel developers".
>
> It's about random people testing kernels.
>
> If we make it harder for people to test kernels, we're going to lose. So
> no, I vote for *not* cutting off old gcc versions unless it's absolutely
> fatal.

How many people e.g. test -rc kernels compiled with gcc 3.2?

> Linus

cu
Adrian

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