On 29-Nov-2001 dman wrote: > On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 06:42:04PM +0200, Dragos Delcea (Bucaresti, Ro) > wrote: >| well, thats about it...is it known not to? > > Likely. Since gcc 3 is so new, it is also likely that there are bugs > in it. The kernel tends to trigger some rare bugs in the compiler, > which is why I beleive they only supported gcc 2.7.2 for a long time. > I think now they've switched to 2.95.2 (or .3). >
The kernel also (ab)uses some gcc features and the 3.x series now enforces the latest C(++) standards.