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

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Message-ID: <AANLkTikB9Fcyrp-_8XqOWhrxXS1aOVFQRfbzv0vBUQQR@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Thu, 20 May 2010 21:56:56 +0200
From:	Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@...il.com>
To:	Martin Michlmayr <tbm@...ius.com>
Cc:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	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 Thu, May 20, 2010 at 8:37 PM, Martin Michlmayr <tbm@...ius.com> wrote:
> * Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org> [2010-05-19 15:38]:
>> > 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?
>
> Not in a recent one, no.

Not even in oldstable (etch).

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