Re: Uhhuh.. 2.4.12

[Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxx>]

Joseph Fannin wrote:

>     The problems with 2.95.x compilers is another stumbling block -- though
> some documents may say these compilers are unsupported for Linux, they are
> "unofficially" supported for 2.[4|5], as is, to a lesser extent, 3.0.x.
> Anything that won't build (and work) with at least 2.95.x is broken.

That may be the current opinion, but the fact is that there are compiler
bugs in those versions of gcc that miscompile some of our perfectly
legitimate code.  See my TAKE message from yesterday, for example.

-Eric
 
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