Re: [PATCH] Make gcc3.3 Eliminate Unused Static Functions

Adrian Bunk (bunk@fs.tum.de)
Thu, 19 Jun 2003 14:10:26 +0200


On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 11:15:16AM -0700, Tom Rini wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 11:07:19AM -0700, Robert Love wrote:
> > On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 09:03, Tom Rini wrote:
> >
> > > ... only if we say a min gcc version of 3.3 however, yes? Otherwise the
> > > kernel gets rather bloated. Just how wide-spread (and Good To Use) is
> > > gcc-3.3 now?
> >
> > Good point.
> >
> > I have been using gcc-3.3 for awhile now with success, and I can
> > recommend it at least for x86, but that really is not reason to force
> > anyone to move to it (yet).
>
> But how much have you rebuilt, heavily tested, etc? I know that
> currently Debian/sid is building XFree86 4.1 at -O on all arches due to

s/4.1/4.2.1/

> gcc-3.3 issues (some xdm auth problem on ppc and x86, other things
> elsewhere).
>...
> Tom Rini

cu
Adrian

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