Re: Status of compiling 2.4 with gcc3.1?

John Weber (john.weber@linuxhq.com)
Mon, 20 May 2002 22:39:56 -0400

Kurt Wall wrote:
> Scribbling feverishly on May 20, Dan Kegel managed to emit:
>
>>How far from wise is it to compile the 2.4.19-prex
>>kernel with gcc3.1? Is there a list of known issues?
>>Only report of trouble I've seen so far is
>>http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=linux.kernel.5.1.0.14.2.20020515015506.02749780%40pop.cus.cam.ac.uk
>>and that's just a compile-time fatal error building ntfs.
>
>
> I'm running 2.4.18 built with GCC 3.1 and having no trouble that
> I've seen.
>
> Kurt

I'm running both 2.4.19-pre8 and 2.5.16, and, though both were compiled
with gcc 3.1, I am having no problems.

Although I remember someone saying that gcc 3.1 produced larger
binaries, and inefficient code in some places.

Also, gcc 3.1 generates lots of warnings because of things like
multi-line string literals, etc.

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