Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 24 Jan 2004 00:20:02 +0100 | From | Stef van der Made <> | Subject | Re: gcc 2.95.3 |
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Matthew Reppert wrote:
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>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.
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