Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261932AbUKCWfi (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Nov 2004 17:35:38 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261945AbUKCWX7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Nov 2004 17:23:59 -0500 Received: from pimout2-ext.prodigy.net ([207.115.63.101]:53755 "EHLO pimout2-ext.prodigy.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261932AbUKCWH4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Nov 2004 17:07:56 -0500 Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2004 14:07:40 -0800 From: Chris Wedgwood To: "Giacomo A. Catenazzi" Cc: Matti Aarnio , Timothy Miller , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: support of older compilers Message-ID: <20041103220740.GA14272@taniwha.stupidest.org> References: <41894779.10706@techsource.com> <20041103211714.GP12275@mea-ext.zmailer.org> <41894F86.7070405@debian.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <41894F86.7070405@debian.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 610 Lines: 16 On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 10:37:10PM +0100, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: > But is it Linux the biggest compiler bug finder? for C it might be, obviously not for C++ > So forcing a newer compiler in other architectures should > improve also the quality of code generation. assuming there are sufficiently many people to work on gcc and those platforms (there isn't) - 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/