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Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 10:42:03 +0200 From: "Michal Piotrowski" <michal.k.k.piotrowski@...il.com> To: "Jan Engelhardt" <jengelh@...putergmbh.de> Cc: "Jarek Poplawski" <jarkao2@...pl>, "Oliver Pinter" <oliver.pntr@...il.com>, "Adrian Bunk" <bunk@...nel.org>, "Randy Dunlap" <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>, "Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>, "Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: RFC: drop support for gcc < 4.0 Hi, On 22/08/07, Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de> wrote: > > On Aug 22 2007 10:08, Jarek Poplawski wrote: > >On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 09:57:04AM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > >> > >> On Aug 21 2007 23:41, Oliver Pinter wrote: > >> >I think it's bad idea, when removing support for gcc3.x, while some > >> >people using debian 3.1 at now and under debian 3.1 the default > >> >comiler is 3.3.5, when I good know or not!? > >> > >> They always lag behind. > > > >Yes! Probably that's why they are so darn good! > > ISTR that even Ubuntu overtook Debian... what about Debian 4.x? They are using gcc 4.1.1 as default http://packages.debian.org/stable/devel/gcc Anyway, IMO dropping support for a compiler just because of warnings it is a bad thing. Regards, Michal -- LOG http://www.stardust.webpages.pl/log/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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