"Terry Parker" <tp@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:cvshm3$oti$1@domitilla.aioe.org...
>I am preparing to install kernel 2.6.10 and I see that the README still
> says: Make sure you have gcc 2.95.3 available.
> gcc 2.91.66 (egcs-1.1.2), and gcc 2.7.2.3 are known to miscompile
> My question: is there a problem with gcc 3.3.4? If not, why does the
> README
> not say: 2.9.5.3 or newer?
> Thanks, Terry

I've been compiling 2.6 with gcc 3.3.* since the early versions without any
problems. Currently got 2.6.10 compiled with 3.3.5 (which isn't in -current
yet. I got the packages if anyone wants em) Only version I had problems
compiling 2.6 with was 3.4.* but that was quite a while ago.