linux-kernel - Re: Does anyone care about gcc 3.x support for *x86* anymore?

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Message-ID: <4BF3F0D3.6070609@zytor.com>
Date:	Wed, 19 May 2010 07:08:19 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
CC:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	eric.dumazet@...il.com, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	"Siddha\, Suresh B" <suresh.b.siddha@...el.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: Does anyone care about gcc 3.x support for *x86* anymore?

On 05/19/2010 06:38 AM, Andi Kleen wrote:
> "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com> writes:
>>
>> If there isn't a reason to preserve support, I would like to consider
>> discontinue support for using gcc 3 to compile x86 kernels.  If there is
>> a valid use case, it would be good to know what it is.
> 
> I suspect there are still distributions around that use it as a standard
> compiler. Wasn't it used in some major release of Debian?
> 
> -Andi

There are, but that doesn't mean it's relevant for people to compile
bleeding-edge kernels with it.

	-hpa

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

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