On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 09:56:18AM +1200, Mike Honeyfield wrote: > I trying to find out the prefered GCC version for the kernel today. > > The README refers to 2.95.3 as does the Documentation/Changes file. > However, I am not aware of any modern distro shipping that version of > GCC. > > Has this changed? 2.95.3 is over 4 years old and with GCC 4.0.1 out > and distros like Fedora using that and many others following suite. > > What are people using? Are people maintaining locally a copy of GCC 2.95.3 ? I've been compiling 2.6 kernels with gcc 2.95.3, 3.3.5. and 3.4.4 with no problems. I don't have the impression the 2.6 kernel is completely ready for gcc 4.0, there are still patches appearing on linux-kernel but the amount is decreasing. The 2.4 kernel (from 2.4.29, IIRC) should be safe to compile with compilers up to gcc-3.4. Erik -- Erik Mouw J.A.K.Mouw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx mouw@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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