[U-Boot] [PATCH 7/7] GCC4.6: Squash warning in cmd_mem.c

Marek Vasut marek.vasut at gmail.com
Mon Sep 26 20:29:24 CEST 2011


On Monday, September 26, 2011 08:03:45 PM Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> Dear Marek Vasut,
> 
> In message <201109261931.24045.marek.vasut at gmail.com> you wrote:
> > > i think gcc-3.x has been broken for a while but no one has noticed
> > 
> > I guess we should go the kernel way -- make it 4.2 and be done with it.
> 
> You are off by one major version.  The kernel README says:
> 
> 	Make sure you have at least gcc 3.2 available.
> 
> Note that this will NOT build any half-way recent U-Boot version.

It might have been my imagination then ... but 4.2 sounded quite logical to me, 
sorry for confusion.

Anyway, is there still anyone using 3.x ? If there isn't any such users, we 
should simply discard it, add gcc version check and set the lower bound to some 
not-too-buggy version of gcc4.

Best regards,

Marek Vasut


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