On Wed, 2002-10-09 at 00:33, Ulrich Weigand wrote: > I would not recommend building kernel 2.4.7 with gcc 3.2, because > the kernel is rather sensitive w.r.t. compiler version, and there are > several cases where old kernels contain constructs that old compilers > accepted, but cause either compile-time errors or (worse!) run-time > problems when building with a more recent compiler.
People should be using at least 2.4.19 if they have untrusted local users, and probably at least 2.4.9 if not.