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

Terry Parker wrote :

> Make sure you have gcc 2.95.3 available.

I think this should be read as "Thats the version Linus Torvalds has
tested the kernel against".

> 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?

Patrick used this version when he compiled the kernel and I'm pretty sure
that if there was any known issues with gcc 3.3.4 he would have dumped
it for an older version or waited for a better one.

> If not, why does the README not say: 2.9.5.3 or newer?

You have noticed that there has been problems with some older versions
of gcc and "newer" would include versions not yet released, versions
that could have problems.
--
Thomas O.

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On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 07:24:18 -0600, Terry Parker wrote:

> 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

3.3.4 is ok.
4.0.x is, afaik, not.
dunno about 3.4.x series.

btw. for all of you considering using 2.6.10 kernel, yoiu could also try as
patchset... its supposed to be "small fixes not supposed to break stuff +
security fixes".
it works nice.
http://www.acm.rpi.edu/~dilinger/patches/

On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 07:24:18 -0600, Terry Parker <tp@nospam.com> wrote:
> 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?

The development of the linux kernel project does not drive the development
of the GCC project and vice versa. There are big changes in the gcc project
after version 2.95.3 that may cause errors when compiling the linux kernel
with a later version. ie The linux kernel project maintainers use gcc 2.95.3
for a clean of compile the kernel.

John
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"Terry Parker" <tp@nospam.com> wrote in message
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>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.