On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 12:01:33AM -0500, Greg Donald wrote:
>...
> Are my gcc's too different?   I could swear I read somewhere any 4.x
> gcc will work with any other 4.x version?  Is that correct?

They are ABI-compatible.

But they do not have the same set of options.

> Is -fno-toplevel-reorder new in Linus' tree?  I've been compiling git
> kernels for some time now with gcc 4.1, but I do seem to recall some
> gcc stack discussions lately on linux-kernel.

arch/x86/boot/Makefile checks whether gcc supports -fno-toplevel-reorder.

Using distcc with different gcc versions is not a good idea.

> Thanks,
> Greg Donald

cu
Adrian

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