Re: We interrupt you regularly scheduled catfight for.. Linux

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Sat Sep 30 2000 - 19:57:03 EDT

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    > come from ? I have been under the impression that that is just
    > what we were trying to get away from . I am reminded of other
    > os's that required their propritary compiler in order to create
    > a os image . Please let us not travel that road . Tia , JimL

    We've always had the kernel tied to specific ranges of kernels and binutils.
    Given the nature of kernel code it is very hard to avoid and it takes a lot
    of time to get a new compiler version supported and trusted.

    In terms of needing a specific compiler well you need gcc or some variant of
    it. Linux is written very much in GNU c

    Alan

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