On Fri, Jul 21, 2006 at 02:03:03PM -0700, Alexey Starovoytov wrote: > > * Continue testing with the 4.2/mainline based gcc to make sure it at least > > compiles ON to be able to switch when/if it is released/stable enough. > > As you can see Linux _never_ switched to plain gcc release. > New releases can be provided in distro, but kernel is alwasy based > on some branch of some release branch. Currently they are 4.0s and 4.1s
That is of course utter bullshit. The Linux kernel doesn't require a specific gcc version. Right now everything from gcc 3.2 up to 4.1 works very nicely and as Rainer mentioned people compile with mainline regularly to find bugs both in the Linux kernel and gcc. _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
