Re: [PATCH] Isapnp warning

[Andrew Morton]

Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[e-mail]> wrote:
>
> Em Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 08:41:02PM -0500, Chris Wedgwood escreveu:
> > On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 09:11:01PM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> > 
> > > Humm, I'd love to do that, i.e. to make gcc 3 required, lots of good
> > > stuff like this one, anonymous structs, etc, etc, lots of stuff
> > > could be done in an easier way, but are we ready to abandon gcc
> > > 2.95.*? Can anyone confirm if gcc 2.96 accepts this?
> > 
> > What *requires* 2.96 still?  Is it a large number of people or obscure
> > architecture?
> 
> I don't know, I was just trying to figure out the impact of requiring gcc 3
> to compile the kernel. I never used gcc 2.96 btw.
> 

Compared to 2.95.3, gcc-3.3 takes 1.5x as long to compile, and produces a
kernel which is 200k larger.

It is simply worthless.