Compiling kernel with SuSE 8.2/gcc 3.3
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Quoted 4 lines · Stephan von Krawczynski
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.
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