Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756882AbXHUVCK (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Aug 2007 17:02:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753333AbXHUVBz (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Aug 2007 17:01:55 -0400 Received: from mu-out-0910.google.com ([209.85.134.185]:55246 "EHLO mu-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753311AbXHUVBy (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Aug 2007 17:01:54 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=BuSOF/+cnojk9s7htEXWIEjngL5l0MVCwvcoQ75mVIkWVtGlxTH/uJrFygg1DD742OcQeqr5Do0BySPstXqtcaPCweOScqnM0ElcqYcIAymqWa/pN9g72q8jOpd9PY2YvwIE2FpoOxoOqkf0B4o7GHgbYH1CYeEWdCy9iDqHJ10= Message-ID: <5d6222a80708211401g6c88753cyd239006b5ed00aea@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 18:01:51 -0300 From: "Glauber de Oliveira Costa" To: "Segher Boessenkool" Subject: Re: RFC: drop support for gcc < 4.0 Cc: "Linus Torvalds" , "Randy Dunlap" , linux-mips@linux-mips.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Jarek Poplawski" , "Adrian Bunk" , "Chris Wedgwood" , linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, "Andrew Morton" In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20070821132038.GA22254@ff.dom.local> <20070821093103.3c097d4a.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> <20070821173550.GC30705@stusta.de> <20070821182505.GA20968@puku.stupidest.org> <5d6222a80708211341s63f8c1eau922f018e66db49f4@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1323 Lines: 34 On 8/21/07, Segher Boessenkool wrote: > > Last time I tried a mips build, it would fail the compile unless I was > > using _exactly_ 3.4.4 (I didn't tried older versions, but did try > > 3.4.6, for ex.). > > If 3.4.4 works where 3.4.6 doesn't, you should report this as a > bug; either here, or to the GCC team (but please be aware that the > 3.4 series isn't supported anymore), or to whoever built that > compiler for you. I didn't bothered reporting it here because linux-mips website quotes explicitly the dependency on 3.4.4. So at least, I imagined they are aware of it. (And as you said, no point in reporting it to gcc...) > > So I also think the 3.4 series will still have to be > > around for a while. > > Huh? 3.4 doesn't work for you, so that's why it should stay > a supported compiler? 3.4.4 does. anyway, by this phrase, I only meant: "Dropping support for 3.4 series won't help in this case" -- Glauber de Oliveira Costa. "Free as in Freedom" http://glommer.net "The less confident you are, the more serious you have to act." - 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/