On Mon, 2012-05-28 at 06:47 -0600, Eduardo Silva wrote:
> On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 5:54 AM, Lauri Kasanen <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Mon, 28 May 2012 11:49:21 +0200
> > Davidlohr Bueso <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >> From discussions with Eduardo, I believe it was Android that was broken.
> >
> > Curious, Google says the NDK for 2.3 came with GCC 4.4.
> >
> > The atomic instructions are in some cases the best way to do things, 
> > beating constructs such as mutexes in scalability hands down. But that's a 
> > separate discussion.
> >
> >> 4.0.4 seems pertinent - January 31, 2007 (http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.0/)
> >>
> >> That should be tolerant enough, I doubt that there'd be reports for
> >> broken platforms.
> >
> > I don't think the bugfix dates should be used, but the initial release - 
> > which for 4.0 was in 2005. In any case, I'm ok with 4.0 too.
> >
> > 4.0 proposed. Any comments? Anyone with an old MIPS device with only gcc 
> > 2.95, speak up now ;)
> >
> > - Lauri
> 
> As Monkey is dependent of the Kernel, it make sense to depends of the
> same requirements, per Kernel documentation:
> 
> COMPILING the kernel:
> 
>  - Make sure you have at least gcc 3.2 available.
>    For more information, refer to Documentation/Changes.
> 
> So i think that we must require minimum a gcc 3.2. If newer versions
> of the compiler comes with great features we can analyze and discuss
> if required,

I'd be quite happy with that!

> 
> comments?
> 


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