Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: We interrupt you regularly scheduled catfight for.. Linux | Date | Sun, 1 Oct 2000 00:57:03 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> come from ? I have been under the impression that that is just > what we were trying to get away from . I am reminded of other > os's that required their propritary compiler in order to create > a os image . Please let us not travel that road . Tia , JimL
We've always had the kernel tied to specific ranges of kernels and binutils. Given the nature of kernel code it is very hard to avoid and it takes a lot of time to get a new compiler version supported and trusted.
In terms of needing a specific compiler well you need gcc or some variant of it. Linux is written very much in GNU c
Alan
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