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Date:	Fri, 27 Apr 2007 08:56:30 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
CC:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Michael McConnell <soruk@...dani.co.uk>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: MAINTAINERS file out of date?

Andi Kleen wrote:
>> A lot of that code (although, of course, not all) could be written in C,
>> though.  I'm thinking of taking a stab at rewriting it that way.
> 
> That would require a new compiler, right? I don't think that would
> make users very happy.
> 
> Besides the code is not exactly that maintenance intensive and only
> changes rarely so I don't need a pressing need to rewrite it

No, it would not need a new compiler.  All it requires is gcc plus a
reasonably recent binutils which you need anyway.

	-hpa
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