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From: andrew may <acmay@acmay.homeip.net>
To: Emmanuel Michon <emmanuel_michon@realmagic.fr>
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Subject: Re: binary compatibity (mixing different gcc versions) in modules
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On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 02:36:25PM +0200, Emmanuel Michon wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> looking at nvidia proprietary driver, the makefile warns
> the user against insmod'ing a module compiled with a gcc
> version different from the one that was used to compile
> the kernel.
> 
> This sounds strange to me, since I never encountered this
> problem.

Really strange since most of the NVidia driver is binary already.
So another question would be if their binary part is compiled with
the same compiler as you have.

So as most of the other people said it probably doesn't matter but
there is a good chance NVidia is already forcing you to break their
own advice.
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