Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 3 Nov 2004 21:13:53 +0000 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: support of older compilers |
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On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 04:02:49PM -0500, Timothy Miller wrote: > I'm just curious about why there seems to be so much work going into > supporting a wide range of GCC versions. If people are willing to > download and compile a new kernel (and migrating from 2.4 to 2.6 is > non-trivial for some systems, like RH9), why aren't they willing to also > download and build a new compiler?
Because the new compilers are a lot slower. - 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/
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