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

From: Miguel Ojeda
Date: Thu May 20 2010 - 15:57:01 EST


On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 8:37 PM, Martin Michlmayr <tbm@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> * Andi Kleen <andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [2010-05-19 15:38]:
>> > 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?
>
> Not in a recent one, no.

Not even in oldstable (etch).

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