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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Partially revert patch that encloses asm-offset.h numbers in brackets
On 10/25/2010 09:16 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 8:50 AM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:
>>
>> As such, the only options I can really think about overriding the sed
>> expression for x86 or just saying gcc 2.16.90 or later is required...
>
> gas, not gcc. But yeah, maybe we can do that. How long has this space
> breakage been going on? If it's a "we got a report from this one guy"
> kind of thing, then just saying "we don't support old gas versions
> because they are too broken" is probably the right thing to do.
>
> No reason to make for maintenance problems and uglier code if we can
> just say "get a newer gas" to a few people. It's not like we haven't
> done that with gcc and other tools too.
>
> Linus

The problem is that 2.16 isn't all that old; al lot of the "enterprise"
distros still ship it or AFAIK even older versions. 2.6.90 which I
*think* is the first fixed version dates from April 2005, so is
currently 5 years old; maybe that is within reason to kill off.

-hpa

--
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.



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