Re: Does anyone care about gcc 3.x support for *x86* anymore?

[Justin P. Mattock]

On 05/19/2010 07:08 AM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 05/19/2010 06:38 AM, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > "H. Peter Anvin"<hpa@xxxxxxxxx>  writes:
> > > If there isn't a reason to preserve support, I would like to consider
> > > discontinue support for using gcc 3 to compile x86 kernels.  If there is
> > > a valid use case, it would be good to know what it is.
> >
> > I suspect there are still distributions around that use it as a standard
> > compiler. Wasn't it used in some major release of Debian?
> >
> > -Andi
>
> There are, but that doesn't mean it's relevant for people to compile
> bleeding-edge kernels with it.
>
> 	-hpa

no need for it here(using 4.6.0)..
Any distro still using this version
should upgrade(but who am I to say anything)

cheers.

Justin P. Mattock
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