Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261208AbUKEU2e (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Nov 2004 15:28:34 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261207AbUKEU2e (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Nov 2004 15:28:34 -0500 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:30093 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261208AbUKEU22 (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Nov 2004 15:28:28 -0500 Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2004 12:28:14 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds To: Chris Wedgwood cc: Andries Brouwer , Adam Heath , Christoph Hellwig , Timothy Miller , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: support of older compilers In-Reply-To: <20041105195045.GA16766@taniwha.stupidest.org> Message-ID: References: <20041103233029.GA16982@taniwha.stupidest.org> <20041105014146.GA7397@pclin040.win.tue.nl> <20041105195045.GA16766@taniwha.stupidest.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: 899 Lines: 27 On Fri, 5 Nov 2004, Chris Wedgwood wrote: > On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 07:41:03AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 281572 Jul 30 1995 zImage-1.2.11 > > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 277476 Apr 1 1995 zImage-1.2.2 > > > Ok, you da man. What do you use it for? Or is it just lying around > > for nostalgic reasons? > > to remind us how large the kernel is getting? :) Yeah, I know. Damn, it's scary. We should probably have some per-object-file statistics, and try to make people more aware of big bad things. The kernel does do more these days than it did in '95. But 6 times more? I dunno.. Linus - 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/