Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 03 Nov 2004 22:37:10 +0100 | From | "Giacomo A. Catenazzi" <> | Subject | Re: support of older compilers |
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Matti Aarnio wrote: > On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 04:02:49PM -0500, Timothy Miller wrote: > >>I'm just curious about why there seems to be so much work going into >>supporting a wide range of GCC versions. If people are willing to >>download and compile a new kernel (and migrating from 2.4 to 2.6 is >>non-trivial for some systems, like RH9), why aren't they willing to also >>download and build a new compiler? > > > > How about those other architectures, than i386 ? > Over the years I have learned, that while GCC may work OK in i386, > the same version used in SPARC does produce bad code. This has > bitten me multiple times. > > > We weird people of other architechtures do tend to get "somewhat" > conservative over the years in finding, and finally staying with > a compiler that we have learned to work. Multiple burned, > forever shy...
But is it Linux the biggest compiler bug finder? So forcing a newer compiler in other architectures should improve also the quality of code generation.
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