Benefits of gcc4?

Alan McKinnon alan at linuxholdings.co.za
Tue May 16 16:20:48 UTC 2006


On Tuesday 16 May 2006 15:53, Adam Conrad wrote:
> Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > On Tuesday 16 May 2006 05:47, Adam Conrad wrote:
> >> 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
>
> Recent, as in we've been using gcc-4.0 for the kernel for the
> entire dapper release, but not for any release previous, yes.  (So,
> for the last 7 months...)

OK, that explains why I missed it - I don't run Dapper, only Breezy.

Thanks for the heads-up.

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