Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 21 Aug 2007 22:21:13 +0200 | From | Adrian Bunk <> | Subject | Re: RFC: drop support for gcc < 4.0 |
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On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 01:08:25PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Tue, 21 Aug 2007, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > > > > Bogus warnings should be relatively harmless. > > > > How many kernel developers use such old gcc versions? > > It's NOT about "kernel developers". > > It's about random people testing kernels. > > If we make it harder for people to test kernels, we're going to lose. So > no, I vote for *not* cutting off old gcc versions unless it's absolutely > fatal.
How many people e.g. test -rc kernels compiled with gcc 3.2?
> Linus
cu Adrian
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