Linux: Supporting Older GCC Releases

Posted by Sander_Marechal on Aug 22, 2007 4:53 PM EDT
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A recent bug report led to a discussion about potentially dropping support for pre-4.0 versions of GCC. Adrian Bunk noted,"currently we support 6 different stable gcc release series, and it might be the right time to consider dropping support for the older ones. Are there any architectures still requiring a gcc< 4.0 ?" Russell King noted that on some architectures GCC 3.x is still preferable to the newer 4.x branch,"I want to keep support for gcc 3.4.3 for ARM for the foreseeable future.

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