Re: RFC: drop support for gcc < 4.0

From: Kyle McMartin
Date: Tue Aug 21 2007 - 14:26:58 EST


On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 06:54:53PM +0100, Russell King wrote:
> I want to keep support for gcc 3.4.3 for ARM for the forseeable future.
> From my point of view, gcc 4 compilers have been something of a development
> thing as far as the ARM architecture goes. Also, gcc 3.4.3 is faster and
> significantly less noisy than gcc 4.
>

+1, similar reasons, for parisc. Not that gcc4 doesn't work, but there's
some cases where gcc 3.4 still generates better code...

Regards,
Kyle M.
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