Old kernels and new compilers

Old kernels and new compilers

Posted Sep 2, 2006 22:34 UTC (Sat) by renox (subscriber, #23785)
In reply to: Old kernels and new compilers by bryanr
Parent article: Old kernels and new compilers

> gcc has an excellent automated testsuite.

For regular code, this is probably ok, but for kernel code?

When there is a major revision of gcc, if memory serves, the Linux kernel breaks in various ways..

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