This came up in a reply I wrote to gwenole that never got sent (I hate
my isp).
Once upon a time, not too long ago, Chmouel made a remark about how he
did not feel comfortable building kernel packages with gcc and would
much rather stick to the rock solid (if old) egcs releases. I wondered
in thinking about the long off gcc 3 official public release if there
would be any greater comfort with using that, or at least testing on a
few machines that signed waivers, other than the fact that it will have
massive compatibility increase with future versions (standardized api
etc.) and slightly stabilized optimization scheme that is a bit more
code cautious (though I woudn't dare say double pedantic). From mdk
crew I know most experienced kernel maintainer would have to be Chmouel
and with the few compiler questions I've had including the recent one
about snapshots of gcc3 Gwenole I have been directed to. Also, I had
questioned but not been answered as to whether Juan and Chmou use the
same build host / compiler in kernel packaging.
P.S. Compiled mozilla w/ gcc 3 snapshot from 20010518 and despite some
pretty scruffy binaries, not as rediculously impossible and far off as I
thought. Gwen right, std libs got some serious work to have done but I
go file reports with those developers now.
:)
Come to think of it, I was pretty messed up earlier, good thing some of
those others didn't get sent although the one I mentioned earlier wasn't
too bad.
-Blue
