Re: [linuxsh-dev] Next change

[NIIBE Y. <gn...@m1...>]

M. R. Brown wrote:
 > Why is this necessary?

For kernel, it would be OK to use 2.95.x with some fixes and support
of -mno-fdiv-divsi.  But it's not the clean 2.95.x anyway, and we don't
have such compiler.

Currently we need patched comipler.  I think that it would be good
if we don't need any patches to GCC, and we should keep the patches
as small as possible, but we need the patches for now.

I mean, there's not any useful compiler other than 2.96 snapshot with
patches or 3.0 with patches.

I continue to send changes to Kaz, well, to mainline development for
inclusion.

 > IIRC the mainline kernel is geared towards gcc-2.95.2,

Weird.  I believe that many developpers use newer compiler with
__builtin_expect, which is not supported in 2.95.  Perhaps, 
it is because RedHat ships kgcc?
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