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SubjectRe: gcc 2.95.3
Matthew Reppert wrote:

>snip
>
>

>Many people have been using gcc-3.2 or later to build kernels, and I
>haven't really heard of any problems with this, at least on i386. I
>personally have used 3.2.2 and 3.3.2 (well, with Debian's patches) and
>haven't had any weirdness with 2.6 or 2.4. ISTR there being arches that
>need 3.x to compile, but I could be mistaken.
>
>2.95.3 is definitely the *oldest* compiler you'd want to use, and pretty
>much skip between that and 3.2.
>
>Matt
>
>
Same here. I've been using gcc3.2.0 and beyond currently 3.3.2 since the
day they were released and never had any big issues. I would recomend
using gcc 3.3.2 since it improves performance when using optimizations
quite a bit as far as I can remember the statistics.

Stef
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