On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Joerg Schilling wrote:
>>Yes, and the reason for that for the 1000'th time to all you
>>blind people is that the *KERNEL*, read that once again, the
>>*KERNEL* is *BUGGY* and as a result, the STABLE kernel Red Hat
>>ships, will not compile the kernel due to *KERNEL* bugs. This is
>>the OFFICIAL Linus response on the issue. Go read and then come
>>back without the FUD.
>
>One big problem with the Linux kernel is that it depends on transient
>nonstandard features of gcc.
>
>As the asm statement of gcc is one of these transient nonstandard
>features used in the Linux kernel, you cannot compile old Linux versions
>with a new gcc and vice versa....
Yep, exactly. Thats why an older compiler must be shipped. The
officially endorsed "Linus" compiler right now is the one Red Hat
is shipping as "kgcc" (gcc-2.91.66).
Some people say "why not ship ONLY that compiler"? And the
answer is because it is ancient, contains lots of bugs which have
been fixed, and the newer compilers are faster, and produce
better code, etc.. if they didn't they would be going backwards.
It'll be nice when kernels ship with the kgcc Makefile patches
applied...
Take care..
TTYL
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