Re: Supporting old GCCs?
Bruce Guenter <[email protected]>
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On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 03:14:45PM -0400, Roger Merchberger wrote: > Rumor has it that Bruce Guenter may have mentioned these words: > > >Is it reasonable to require GCC 2.95 or later (or equivalent other > >compiler that supports C99 such as ICC)? > > IMHO, yes. 2.95 has been around roughly forever July 31 1999, according to http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-2.95/ > and for quite a while was > the standard kernel compiler long after 3.x was out, so the few people who > may not have it by now, prolly should... ;-) The kernel compiler argument is worth something, as it means that anybody who wanted to build a Linux system was required to have that compiler available, which goes a long way to pointing to its acceptance. -- Bruce Guenter <[email protected]> http://em.ca/~bruceg/ http://untroubled.org/ OpenPGP key: 699980E8 / D0B7 C8DD 365D A395 29DA 2E2A E96F B2DC 6999 80E8
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