compiler question

[Tony Alfrey]

On Monday 21 July 2003 08:07 am, Bruce Marshall wrote:
> On Monday 21 July 2003 10:56 am, Tony Alfrey wrote:
> > I see that more and more stuff will require gcc 3.3 and I've been
> > running gcc 2.95.2.  So can someone tell me what potential problems
> > I might have if I install 3.3.  Specifically
> > a)  will 3.3 prevent me from now making small changes in my 2.4.4
> > kernel previously compiled with 2.95.2?
>
> One gotcha...  The 3.3 compiler has some stricter rules on strings
> and will not compile anything under kernel 2.4.21 I believe.... 
> although the problems are few and could be patched I suppose.  The
> older kernels have strings that don't fit the new rules.

Ooooops!!
I think I will need to switch between compilers.
Thanks for the warning!
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