The end of gcc 2.95 support
The end of gcc 2.95 support
Posted Dec 15, 2005 18:00 UTC (Thu) by pj (subscriber, #4506)Parent article: The end of gcc 2.95 support
Would this change affect all architectures, or just x86? does 3.2 support all the architectures 2.95 does/did? Embedded linux devs would be quite unhappy to have their standard toolset suddenly stop working...
Posted Dec 15, 2005 22:07 UTC (Thu)
by khim (subscriber, #9252)
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Would this change affect all architectures, or just x86? All does 3.2 support all the architectures 2.95 does/did?> No. Embedded linux devs would be quite unhappy to have their standard toolset suddenly stop working... That's why it's discussed today and not two years ago...
Posted Jan 10, 2006 23:46 UTC (Tue)
by nix (subscriber, #2304)
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The end of gcc 2.95 support
Many non-x86 architectures needed later GCC versions anyway, and others benefited greatly from them (e.g. SPARC64 can be compiled either with an ancient and crocked-up 1998-vintage egcs hack, or with GCC 3.2+; performance with the latter is detectably higher in my admittedly unscientific benchmarks, and with -Os --- not supported in the ancient egcs --- the kernel's much smaller too).The end of gcc 2.95 support