Benefits of gcc4?

Alan McKinnon alan at linuxholdings.co.za
Tue May 16 08:55:01 UTC 2006


On Tuesday 16 May 2006 05:47, Adam Conrad wrote:
> Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > I believe so - Ubuntu proved that 4.0 works for userspace apps,
> > but kernel space is always a different matter. Look how long it
> > took for the kernel developers to get around to saying that gcc
> > 3.3.x is OK
>
> Uhm, we're using gcc-4.0 for the kernel too, on all architectures
> except for hppa.

Is that a recent change? Last time I checked (v5.10) the kernel was 
compiled with 3.3.x

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