> Date: Mon, 20 Apr 1998 12:29:50 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Dean Gaudet <dgaudet-list-linux-kernel@arctic.org>
> To: Michiel Boland <boland@diva.nl>
> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
> Subject: Re: gcc 2.8.1 (Re: Uploaded 2.0.34pre9)
>
>
>
> On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Michiel Boland wrote:
>
> > There are bugs in gcc-2.8.1 and there are bugs in linux-2.0.3x.
> >
> > If you force people to stick to old gcc versions just to compile
> > a linux kernel, you will never discover the bugs in gcc-2.8.1,
> > and you will never discover broken hacks in the kernel source.
>
> I think it can be put more like this: the folks working on 2.0.3x
> probably have their hands full enough as it is just dealing with the bugs
> in linux-2.0.3x. Changing the compiler adds a whole slew of new bugs
> which they don't have to find; folks don't have to use gcc-2.8.x.
Just to play devil's advocate here: by similar reasoning, people don't have
to use Linux as well. Be careful the arguments you use.
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