On Thu, 21 Aug 2008, Luck, Tony wrote: > Still need to figure out exactly what broke the build with a 3.x gcc to > see if there is an easy workaround. Though 4.0.0 was released over three > years ago ... is it time to give up on the ancient 3.x technology? Yes. I've got a hard time seeing why anyone would use GCC 3.x to build current Linux kernels for Itanium (except when using an acient distro as the base for kernel development). > [*] If you ignore that the 4.2.4 compiler is about 15% slower > than my trusty old 3.4.6 :-( The resulting binary should be faster, though. ;-) How about giving GCC 4.3 a try, by the way? IIRC, GCC 4.2 has some aliasing issues that have been addressed. Gerald -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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