On Mon, 29 Dec 2003, Bill Studenmund wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 12:35:49PM -0600, Joe Laffeyolor wrote:
> > Is there any kind of official, supported method for compiling the STABLE
> > kernel with gcc 3 (perhaps with gcc3 from pkgsrc)?
>
> No.
>
> "STABLE" is 1.6.X, which uses gcc 2.95. There were a lot of changes to get
> gcc 3 working with our tree, and they haven't been pulled back into the
> 1.6 branch.
>
> Since we hope to be branching 2.0 in the next few months (we _hope_ in the
> next few weeks, but I'm not sure if we'll meet that), there isn't much
> drive to push the changes back.
>

FYI: I was able to compile the kernel (not userland) with gcc3 without
only one modification (I reported this with send-pr and it was address a
long time ago).

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