Re: support of older compilers

[Linus Torvalds]

On Fri, 5 Nov 2004, Chris Wedgwood wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 07:41:03AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> > > -rw-r--r--   1 root     root       281572 Jul 30  1995 zImage-1.2.11
> > > -rw-r--r--   1 root     root       277476 Apr  1  1995 zImage-1.2.2
> 
> > Ok, you da man. What do you use it for? Or is it just lying around
> > for nostalgic reasons?
> 
> to remind us how large the kernel is getting? :)

Yeah, I know. Damn, it's scary. We should probably have some
per-object-file statistics, and try to make people more aware of big bad
things.

The kernel does do more these days than it did in '95. But 6 times more? I 
dunno..

		Linus
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