Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262446AbUKDWi6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Nov 2004 17:38:58 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261331AbUKDWiu (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Nov 2004 17:38:50 -0500 Received: from e4.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.104]:61601 "EHLO e4.ny.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262446AbUKDWfW (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Nov 2004 17:35:22 -0500 Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2004 14:33:37 -0800 From: "Martin J. Bligh" To: Adam Heath , Christoph Hellwig cc: Timothy Miller , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: support of older compilers Message-ID: <305810000.1099607617@flay> In-Reply-To: References: <41894779.10706@techsource.com> <20041103211353.GA24084@infradead.org> X-Mailer: Mulberry/2.1.2 (Linux/x86) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 812 Lines: 20 >> 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. Yes, it is. Mostly they produce larger, slower code too. M. - 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/