Re: Time to remove old gcc support

Blake A. Jones (blakej@foo.caltech.edu)
Wed, 24 Apr 1996 08:14:00 -0700


In mlist.linux-kernel you write:

>> I think it would be sufficient to have, in the Changes file,
>> a list of compiler versions and the options required for each
>> version to yield a working kernel. Surely with optimization
>> cranked down even 2.5.8 will work?

>Possibly, but unless someone wants to spend a week reading assembler
>output I'd advise against it

What bugs should I be seeing? I'm running 1.3.90 (without modules),
compiled with 2.5.8 a.out. My system is pretty heavily loaded; it runs
a mud, so it gets a good amount of regular network traffic. The only
problems I've seen are the occasional "Socket destroy delayed", but that's
apparently not a problem.

rift-1: cat /proc/version
Linux version 1.3.90 (root@rift) (gcc version 2.5.8) #1 Wed Apr 17 23:39:22 PDT 1996
rift-2: uptime
8:09am up 6 days, 7:46, 3 users, load average: 0.13, 0.29, 0.25
rift-3:

Blake