From: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>,
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@conectiva.com.br>
Cc: cw@f00f.org, torvalds@transmeta.com, geert@linux-m68k.org,
alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, perex@suse.cz,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Isapnp warning
Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2003 20:43:52 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <90770000.1056253431@[10.10.2.4]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030621191705.3c1dbb16.akpm@digeo.com>
--Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com> wrote (on Saturday, June 21, 2003 19:17:05 -0700):
> Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@conectiva.com.br> wrote:
>>
>> Em Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 08:41:02PM -0500, Chris Wedgwood escreveu:
>> > On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 09:11:01PM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
>> >
>> > > Humm, I'd love to do that, i.e. to make gcc 3 required, lots of good
>> > > stuff like this one, anonymous structs, etc, etc, lots of stuff
>> > > could be done in an easier way, but are we ready to abandon gcc
>> > > 2.95.*? Can anyone confirm if gcc 2.96 accepts this?
>> >
>> > What *requires* 2.96 still? Is it a large number of people or obscure
>> > architecture?
>>
>> I don't know, I was just trying to figure out the impact of requiring gcc 3
>> to compile the kernel. I never used gcc 2.96 btw.
>>
>
> Compared to 2.95.3, gcc-3.3 takes 1.5x as long to compile, and produces a
> kernel which is 200k larger.
>
> It is simply worthless.
Agreed. 2.95.4 is also still the default debian compiler. Requiring
3.x seems like a bad plan, until they get it to a point where it's
actually better than 2.95, stable, and widely distributed. It's
definitely not there yet (seems kind of stable, but not the others).
M.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-06-22 3:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-06-15 18:36 [PATCH] Isapnp warning Geert Uytterhoeven
2003-06-21 12:31 ` Alan Cox
2003-06-21 14:59 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2003-06-21 15:04 ` Sean Neakums
2003-06-21 19:51 ` Andrew Morton
2003-06-21 23:53 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-06-22 0:11 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2003-06-22 1:41 ` Chris Wedgwood
2003-06-22 1:43 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2003-06-22 2:17 ` Andrew Morton
2003-06-22 2:27 ` Chris Wedgwood
2003-06-22 2:59 ` Andrew Morton
2003-06-22 5:50 ` Herbert Xu
2003-06-22 3:43 ` Martin J. Bligh [this message]
2003-06-22 4:24 ` Paul Mackerras
2003-06-22 8:32 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2003-06-22 13:34 ` Daniel Phillips
2003-06-22 5:39 ` gcc 3.3: largest *and* smallest kernels (was Re: [PATCH] Isapnp warning) Barry K. Nathan
2003-06-22 11:31 ` Alan Cox
2003-06-22 13:22 ` GCC speed (was " Daniel Phillips
2003-06-22 17:32 ` Andrew Morton
2003-06-22 17:56 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-06-22 18:58 ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2003-06-22 19:12 ` Sam Ravnborg
2003-06-22 19:13 ` Andrew Morton
2003-06-22 19:32 ` Henning Schmiedehausen
2003-06-22 19:51 ` Adrian Bunk
2003-06-22 19:12 ` Daniel Phillips
2003-06-23 1:05 ` Larry McVoy
2002-01-04 11:32 ` Pavel Machek
2003-07-17 10:18 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-07-17 10:23 ` Jakub Jelinek
2003-07-17 10:27 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-06-22 8:49 ` [PATCH] Isapnp warning Russell King
2003-06-22 8:39 ` Jörn Engel
2003-06-22 14:07 ` Daniel Phillips
2003-06-22 15:00 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-08-29 14:49 Geert Uytterhoeven
2003-06-15 19:10 Geert Uytterhoeven
2003-06-09 10:37 Geert Uytterhoeven
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