Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261984AbUKCXTK (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Nov 2004 18:19:10 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261979AbUKCXR1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Nov 2004 18:17:27 -0500 Received: from brown.brainfood.com ([146.82.138.61]:23168 "EHLO gradall.private.brainfood.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261890AbUKCXHK (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Nov 2004 18:07:10 -0500 Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2004 17:06:56 -0600 (CST) From: Adam Heath X-X-Sender: adam@gradall.private.brainfood.com To: Christoph Hellwig cc: Timothy Miller , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: support of older compilers In-Reply-To: <20041103211353.GA24084@infradead.org> Message-ID: References: <41894779.10706@techsource.com> <20041103211353.GA24084@infradead.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 782 Lines: 17 On Wed, 3 Nov 2004, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > 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. You can't be serious that this is a problem. - 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/