Re: support of older compilers

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 04:02:49PM -0500, Timothy Miller wrote:
> I'm just curious about why there seems to be so much work going into 
> supporting a wide range of GCC versions.  If people are willing to 
> download and compile a new kernel (and migrating from 2.4 to 2.6 is 
> non-trivial for some systems, like RH9), why aren't they willing to also 
> download and build a new compiler?

Because the new compilers are a lot slower.
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