Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262487AbUKDWzD (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Nov 2004 17:55:03 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262485AbUKDWv7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Nov 2004 17:51:59 -0500 Received: from smtp2.jazztel.es ([62.14.3.162]:62700 "EHLO smtp2.jazztel.es") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262461AbUKDWtR (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Nov 2004 17:49:17 -0500 Message-ID: <418AB1E3.7030505@wanadoo.es> Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2004 23:49:07 +0100 From: Xose Vazquez Perez User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; es-ES; rv:1.4.1) Gecko/20031114 X-Accept-Language: gl, es, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 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: 618 Lines: 19 Linus Torvalds wrote: > Your "use new versions of gcc even if it is slower" argument doesn't make > any _sense_. If the new versions aren't any better, why would you want to > use them? Maybe because older gccs are not maintained, only 3.3.x 3.4.x and 4.0.0. _Unless_ you have a long life time distribution (aka SLES, RHEL or clones). -- TLOZ OOT: worse than drugs. - 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/