Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261882AbUKCVHG (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Nov 2004 16:07:06 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261879AbUKCVDP (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Nov 2004 16:03:15 -0500 Received: from kinesis.swishmail.com ([209.10.110.86]:55567 "EHLO kinesis.swishmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261887AbUKCVDE (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Nov 2004 16:03:04 -0500 Message-ID: <41894779.10706@techsource.com> Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2004 16:02:49 -0500 From: Timothy Miller MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: support of older compilers Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 561 Lines: 11 I'm just curious about why there seems to be so much work going into supporting a wide range of GCC versions. If people are willing to download and compile a new kernel (and migrating from 2.4 to 2.6 is non-trivial for some systems, like RH9), why aren't they willing to also download and build a new compiler? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/