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Re: Can't compile a new kernel.


"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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