On 8/1/05, Adrian Bunk <[email protected]> wrote:
> This patch removes support for gcc < 3.2 .
>
> The advantages are:
> - reducing the number of supported gcc versions from 8 to 4 [1]
> allows the removal of several #ifdef's and workarounds
> - my impression is that the older compilers are only rarely
> used, so miscompilations of a driver with an old gcc might
> not be detected for a longer amount of time
>
>
Another disadvantage is you'll really piss of the VAX developers (all
3 of us!!!, well me not so much anymore...)
I think there is a gcc 4.x compiler nearly capable of building a
kernel for the VAX...
Dave.
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