Re: Recommended compiler version

[Adrian Bunk]

On Sat, May 29, 2004 at 04:12:47PM +0200, Francois Romieu wrote:
>...
> It makes no sense to religiously recommended 2.95.3 if it is known broken.

In my experience, 2.95.3 isn't more broken than the average 3.3 
compiler.

> If nobody comes with a better approach, I'll simply submit a patch to
> remove the 2.95.3 recommendation (+ #error for the driver as suggested by ak).

The common solution in the kernel for such issues is to change the code 
to compile correctly with all supported compilers.

This might not be a perfect solution, but otherwise different drivers 
might require different compiler versions resulting in a chaos.

Whether support for gcc 2.95 should be dropped is a discussion for 2.7.

> Ueimor

cu
Adrian

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