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Re: Can't compile a new kernel.
- To: "Jose Luis Alarcon" <jlalarcon at linuxmail dot org>
- Subject: Re: Can't compile a new kernel.
- From: Florian Weimer <Florian dot Weimer at RUS dot Uni-Stuttgart dot DE>
- Date: 24 Jun 2001 13:50:55 +0200
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- References: <20010624113444.31776.qmail@linuxmail.org>
"Jose Luis Alarcon" <jlalarcon@linuxmail.org> writes:
> Mi name is Jose Luis Alarcon. I'm just installed
> the new gcc-3.0, and when i try to compile a new
> kernel 2.2.xx or 2.4.x give me an error.
The Linux kernel is not written in standard C. It contains a lot of
compiler-specific code, relying on behavior which is
implementation-defined or even undefined according to the C standard.
As a result, it works only with those compiler versions listed in the
README file.
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