Re: Kernel compilation and gcc272

[Matthias Klose <doko@cs.tu-berlin.de>]

Yann Dirson writes:
 > Matthias Klose writes:
 >  > I have been told that some modules do not compile due to
 >  > invalid asm statements. Are there other problems that gcc-2.95.1
 >  > cannot compile 2.2.x kernels?
 > 
 > I had some compile/asm failure which I don't remember - then I changed
 > gcc to gcc272.  Cannot tell much more.

Yes, but because of some not yet fixed modules, you should not have to 
fall back to gcc272. How critical are these modules? Kernels are
recompiled for several reasons (Laptops, Sound, ...). If these modules 
are rather unused then it would be acceptable to use gcc as default compiler.