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Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 10:50:43 +0200
From: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@csd.uu.se>
To: Andreas Steinmetz <ast@domdv.de>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>, Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>,
       Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>, Willy Tarreau <wtarreau@hera.kernel.org>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mtosatti@redhat.com,
       Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se>
Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.34-pre1
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Andreas Steinmetz writes:
 > Arjan van de Ven wrote:
 > > But maybe it's worth doing a user survey to find out what the users of
 > > 2.4 want... (and with that I mean users of the kernel.org 2.4 kernels,
 > > people who use enterprise distro kernels don't count for this since
 > > they'll not go to a newer released 2.4 anyway)
 > 
 > Currently I'm working with ARM based embedded systems. I prefer 2.4
 > kernels to 2.6 as they are smaller thus leaving more flash for jffs2.
 > Not speaking of the kernel a gcc 4.1.1 compile of code for a LPC2103
 > resulted in a clearly smaller binary as the same compile with gcc 3.4.
 > Thus I really would like to be able to use gcc 4.x with 2.4 kernels.
 > There are even kernel miscompiles with gcc 3.4 that might be fixed with
 > gcc 4 (one has to try).

I've done a fair amount of ARM user-space hacking recently, and the
number of bug fixes one has to apply to gcc-3.3 or gcc-3.4 to make it
even semi-correct on ARM is scary. Since these versions aren't supported
any more, being able to use newer, hopefully less buggy, and _supported_
gcc versions is clearly beneficial.

Of course, this is not an issue for x86 users.
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