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SubjectRe: support of older compilers


On Fri, 5 Nov 2004, Chris Wedgwood wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 07:41:03AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 281572 Jul 30 1995 zImage-1.2.11
> > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 277476 Apr 1 1995 zImage-1.2.2
>
> > Ok, you da man. What do you use it for? Or is it just lying around
> > for nostalgic reasons?
>
> to remind us how large the kernel is getting? :)

Yeah, I know. Damn, it's scary. We should probably have some
per-object-file statistics, and try to make people more aware of big bad
things.

The kernel does do more these days than it did in '95. But 6 times more? I
dunno..

Linus
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