Re: Linux 2.0.3x & gcc 2.8

Mike Bedy (mbedy@mail.portup.com)
Wed, 4 Feb 1998 18:05:49 -0500 (EST)


*hand goes up* I volentier to test such a patch. I don't do anything
critical on my machine, but I do use it fairly heavily so I guess I would
be ideal (at least in some aspects) for testing.

Just let me know where to get such a patch, and I'll lay it on.

- Mike

On Wed, 4 Feb 1998, Philip Blundell wrote:

> >No, you have to convince Alan Cox, that it should. Seems he doesn't like
> >to fix anything for gcc-280.
>
> If you can get people to run kernels with gcc 2.8.0 and this patch for a few
> weeks and convince everyone that nothing breaks, it can probably go into
> 2.0.34. Putting it in otherwise is implicitly saying "gcc 2.8.0 is ok", and
> that's a dangerous thing to do.
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> p.
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