Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755044AbXHUWK4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Aug 2007 18:10:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751678AbXHUWKr (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Aug 2007 18:10:47 -0400 Received: from mailout.stusta.mhn.de ([141.84.69.5]:55538 "EHLO mailhub.stusta.mhn.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751348AbXHUWKq (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Aug 2007 18:10:46 -0400 Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 00:09:52 +0200 From: Adrian Bunk To: James Bottomley Cc: Segher Boessenkool , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds , Jarek Poplawski , Andi Kleen , linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, Randy Dunlap Subject: Re: RFC: drop support for gcc < 4.0 Message-ID: <20070821220952.GH30705@stusta.de> References: <20070821132038.GA22254@ff.dom.local> <20070821093103.3c097d4a.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> <20070821173550.GC30705@stusta.de> <20070821191959.GC2642@bingen.suse.de> <20070821195433.GE30705@stusta.de> <20070821202113.GF30705@stusta.de> <27c412eea99f1f80a3002e9668bd31f8@kernel.crashing.org> <20070821212129.GG30705@stusta.de> <1187732978.18410.51.camel@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1187732978.18410.51.camel@localhost.localdomain> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1780 Lines: 45 On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 04:49:38PM -0500, James Bottomley wrote: > On Tue, 2007-08-21 at 23:21 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 10:49:49PM +0200, Segher Boessenkool wrote: > > >> How many people e.g. test -rc kernels compiled with gcc 3.2? > > > > > > Why would that matter? It either works or not. If it doesn't > > > work, it can either be fixed, or support for that old compiler > > > version can be removed. > > > > One bug report "kernel doesn't work / crash / ... when compiled with > > gcc 3.2, but works when compiled with gcc 4.2" will most likely be lost > > in the big pile of unhandled bugs, not cause the removal of gcc 3.2 > > support... > > What's the bugzilla or pointer to this report please? Those of us who > use gcc-3 as the default kernel compiler will take it seriously (if it > looks to have an impact to our kernel builds) otherwise we can tell you > it's unreproducible/not a problem etc. This was an example in response to Segher's point we would remove support for a gcc version in such a case. I remember we had such issues, but I don't find any pointer to a specific one at the moment. I'll keep you informed when bug reports come in that only occur with older gcc versions and that aren't easily fixable. > James cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed - 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/