Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261886AbUKCVPA (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Nov 2004 16:15:00 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261891AbUKCVO7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Nov 2004 16:14:59 -0500 Received: from phoenix.infradead.org ([81.187.226.98]:57095 "EHLO phoenix.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261888AbUKCVNz (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Nov 2004 16:13:55 -0500 Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2004 21:13:53 +0000 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Timothy Miller Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: support of older compilers Message-ID: <20041103211353.GA24084@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Timothy Miller , Linux Kernel Mailing List References: <41894779.10706@techsource.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <41894779.10706@techsource.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by phoenix.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 679 Lines: 13 On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 04:02:49PM -0500, Timothy Miller wrote: > 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? Because the new compilers are a lot slower. - 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/