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To: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
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Subject: Re: Which gcc version?
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Hi Andrew,

At 20:14 23/11/01, Andrew Morton wrote:
>Daniel Phillips wrote:
> >
> > If there is a performance hit, it's not enough to worry about.
>
>except egcs-1.1.2 (2.91.6) compiles stuff at almost twice the speed
>of gcc3.  The person who breaks egcs-1.1.2 for kernel builds owes
>me a quad Xeon, thanks very much.

Have you read the current Documentation/Changes? It says "the 2.5 tree is 
likely to drop egcs-1.1.2 workarounds". Whoever wrote that seems to be 
wanting to break it in the near future...

Anton


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