On 09/13/2010 05:11 PM, Brian Gerst wrote: > On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 4:14 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> This patchset bumps the minimum supported gcc version to 3.4 for the >> general kernel, and to 4.1 for x86. >> >> We have had a rash of bug reports related to these really old >> compilers and their associated binutils version lately, and it is >> clear that the support burden of these older compilers is getting to >> be excessive. If you really want to build a kernel on a system that >> old you can build or obtain an updated gcc/binutils as well. > > What version of binutils does this correspond to? It would be nice to > clean up some of the hacks for ancient binutils as well. > 4.1 -> 2.16 3.4 -> 2.14/2.15 (gcc 3.4.0 beat binutils 2.15 by a mere 29 days) This is somewhat unfortunate, since neither of these brackets eliminate the Binutils Version From Hell, a.k.a. 2.16. -hpa -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
