On Mon, Jul 24, 2006 at 09:11:23PM +0200, Rainer Orth wrote: > > 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 > > This may be for the same reasons as with Solaris: they may require specific > changes that didn't make it into the GCC release, or bug fixes that weren't > acceptable for GCC mainline.
The Linux kernel definitly does not require changes to release gcc versions. It works with any gcc starting from gcc 3.2 up to the most recent released version. That the linux distributions ship gcc versions with local patches has nothing to do with the linux kernel. In fact if you look at the patches you'll see that very few even touch the C frontend but most are in the support for other languages or to the lesser extent the architecture backends. _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
