Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 4 Aug 2005 11:34:27 +1000 | From | Dave Airlie <> | Subject | Re: [2.6 patch] remove support for gcc < 3.2 |
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On 8/1/05, Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> wrote: > This patch removes support for gcc < 3.2 . > > The advantages are: > - reducing the number of supported gcc versions from 8 to 4 [1] > allows the removal of several #ifdef's and workarounds > - my impression is that the older compilers are only rarely > used, so miscompilations of a driver with an old gcc might > not be detected for a longer amount of time > >
Another disadvantage is you'll really piss of the VAX developers (all 3 of us!!!, well me not so much anymore...)
I think there is a gcc 4.x compiler nearly capable of building a kernel for the VAX...
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