Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932236AbXHUS05 (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Aug 2007 14:26:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1761617AbXHUS0s (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Aug 2007 14:26:48 -0400 Received: from stout.engsoc.carleton.ca ([134.117.69.22]:38771 "EHLO stout.engsoc.carleton.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1761458AbXHUS0r (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Aug 2007 14:26:47 -0400 Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 14:14:20 -0400 From: Kyle McMartin To: Adrian Bunk , Randy Dunlap , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , Jarek Poplawski , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: RFC: drop support for gcc < 4.0 Message-ID: <20070821181420.GD22069@fattire.cabal.ca> References: <20070821132038.GA22254@ff.dom.local> <20070821093103.3c097d4a.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> <20070821173550.GC30705@stusta.de> <20070821175453.GB19819@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070821175453.GB19819@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 725 Lines: 17 On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 06:54:53PM +0100, Russell King wrote: > I want to keep support for gcc 3.4.3 for ARM for the forseeable future. > From my point of view, gcc 4 compilers have been something of a development > thing as far as the ARM architecture goes. Also, gcc 3.4.3 is faster and > significantly less noisy than gcc 4. > +1, similar reasons, for parisc. Not that gcc4 doesn't work, but there's some cases where gcc 3.4 still generates better code... Regards, Kyle M. - 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/