linux-kernel - Re: RFC: drop support for gcc

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Message-ID: <20070821181420.GD22069@fattire.cabal.ca>
Date:	Tue, 21 Aug 2007 14:14:20 -0400
From:	Kyle McMartin <kyle@...isc-linux.org>
To:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>,
	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@...pl>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-arch@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RFC: drop support for gcc < 4.0

On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 06:54:53PM +0100, Russell King wrote:
> I want to keep support for gcc 3.4.3 for ARM for the forseeable future.
> From my point of view, gcc 4 compilers have been something of a development
> thing as far as the ARM architecture goes.  Also, gcc 3.4.3 is faster and
> significantly less noisy than gcc 4.
> 

+1, similar reasons, for parisc. Not that gcc4 doesn't work, but there's
some cases where gcc 3.4 still generates better code...

Regards,
	Kyle M.
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