Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 13 Dec 2005 11:11:53 +0100 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/19] MUTEX: Introduce simple mutex implementation |
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> Guess > > #if __GNUC__ == 3 && __GNUC_MINOR__ < 3 > #error Your compiler is too buggy; it is known to miscompile kernels. > #error Known good compilers: 3.3, 3.4, 4.0 > #endif > > would be better. __GNUC__ < 2 will certainly be errored about in other > places and it is bad to suggest compilers that are no longer supported > as known good ones.
Are there really any known serious miscompilation with 3.1/3.2? (I knew it used to miscompile some loops on x86-64, but I think I worked around all that)
Preventing SLES9 and RHEL3 users from easily compiling new kernels isn't good.
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