Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932442AbWARBOh (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Jan 2006 20:14:37 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932443AbWARBOh (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Jan 2006 20:14:37 -0500 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:4775 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932442AbWARBOh (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Jan 2006 20:14:37 -0500 Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 17:14:25 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds To: Jeff Chua cc: Linux Kernel Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.16-rc1 -- which gcc version? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <20060117183916.399b030f.diegocg@gmail.com> 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: 619 Lines: 17 On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, Jeff Chua wrote: > > Which gcc version should I use, now that gcc-2.95.3 can't compile > 2.6.16-rc1 anymore? gcc-3.3 as mentioned in the patch? Avoid 4.0.0 and 4.0.1, but other than that, I don't think there are really any huge mistakes to be made. You'll be very hard-pressed to even find any of the old buggy early-3.x series compilers. 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/