Re: Does anyone care about gcc 3.x support for *x86* anymore?

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Wed May 19 2010 - 09:38:36 EST


"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> If there isn't a reason to preserve support, I would like to consider
> discontinue support for using gcc 3 to compile x86 kernels. If there is
> a valid use case, it would be good to know what it is.

I suspect there are still distributions around that use it as a standard
compiler. Wasn't it used in some major release of Debian?

-Andi
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