Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 20 Apr 1998 13:42:42 -0700 (PDT) | From | Glenn Lamb <> | Subject | Re: gcc 2.8.1 (Re: Uploaded 2.0.34pre9) |
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On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Dean Gaudet wrote:
> Date: Mon, 20 Apr 1998 12:29:50 -0700 (PDT) > From: Dean Gaudet <dgaudet-list-linux-kernel@arctic.org> > To: Michiel Boland <boland@diva.nl> > Cc: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu > Subject: Re: gcc 2.8.1 (Re: Uploaded 2.0.34pre9) > > > > On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Michiel Boland wrote: > > > There are bugs in gcc-2.8.1 and there are bugs in linux-2.0.3x. > > > > If you force people to stick to old gcc versions just to compile > > a linux kernel, you will never discover the bugs in gcc-2.8.1, > > and you will never discover broken hacks in the kernel source. > > I think it can be put more like this: the folks working on 2.0.3x > probably have their hands full enough as it is just dealing with the bugs > in linux-2.0.3x. Changing the compiler adds a whole slew of new bugs > which they don't have to find; folks don't have to use gcc-2.8.x.
Just to play devil's advocate here: by similar reasoning, people don't have to use Linux as well. Be careful the arguments you use.
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