Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: gcc 2.95.3 | From | Matthew Reppert <> | Date | Fri, 23 Jan 2004 12:33:56 -0600 |
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On Fri, 2004-01-23 at 10:30, Karel Kulhavý wrote: > On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 05:01:23PM +0100, Daniel Andersen wrote: > > > I read here "make sure you have gcc 2.95.3 available" - does it mean > > > my gcc-3.2.3 or gcc-3.2.2 is not suitable for kernel compiling? > > > > Please have a look at http://developer.osdl.org/cherry/compile/ > > What if the kernel compiles cleanly but the generated code is invalid? > Or is gcc-3.2.2 BugFree(TM) (BugFree as in BugFree speech, not as > in BugFree beer)?
Many people have been using gcc-3.2 or later to build kernels, and I haven't really heard of any problems with this, at least on i386. I personally have used 3.2.2 and 3.3.2 (well, with Debian's patches) and haven't had any weirdness with 2.6 or 2.4. ISTR there being arches that need 3.x to compile, but I could be mistaken.
2.95.3 is definitely the *oldest* compiler you'd want to use, and pretty much skip between that and 3.2.
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