From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261309AbTDHLu5 (for ); Tue, 8 Apr 2003 07:50:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261316AbTDHLu5 (for ); Tue, 8 Apr 2003 07:50:57 -0400 Received: from natsmtp00.webmailer.de ([192.67.198.74]:62367 "EHLO post.webmailer.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261309AbTDHLu4 (for ); Tue, 8 Apr 2003 07:50:56 -0400 Message-Id: <200304081202.h38C2Wgu010663@post.webmailer.de> From: Arnd Bergmann Subject: Re: Compiling kernel with SuSE 8.2/gcc 3.3 To: Stephan von Krawczynski , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2003 14:02:05 +0200 References: <20030408115008$0cd2@gated-at.bofh.it> User-Agent: KNode/0.7.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Stephan von Krawczynski wrote: > during tests with latest SuSE distro 8.2 compiling 2.4.21-pre6 showed a lot of > "comparison between signed and unsigned" warnings. It looks like SuSE ships gcc > 3.3 (prerelease). Is this compiler known to work for kernel compilation? Should > therefore all these warnings be fixed? We're building 2.4 and 2.5 kernels for s390 with a gcc-3.3 snapshot and we had to fix a few places in the kernel source to make that work reliably. See http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=104611164800008&r=1&w=2 for more about this. I have also tried using gcc-3.3 for building a 2.4 i386 kernel and needed a small patch, but ymmv. Arnd <><