On Thu, 27 Oct 2016 09:28:24 +0200 Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bige...@linutronix.de> wrote:
> > Building with gcc 3.3 is apparently still possible, although it produces > > tons of warnings and a modpost section mismatch. Still, requiring gcc > > 4.1 or newer would not be unreasonable, I think (still released a few > > months earlier than binutils 2.17). > > I remember you had once a server box running some enterprise distro > which had an old gcc. Do you see any reason for not lifting the minimum > gcc version to v4.1 ? Seems OK to me. I do have a gcc-3.4.5 for mips, sh and sparc64 sitting around but I basically never use them and should update.