RE: GCC 3.2 ABI changes

[Steve M. Gehlbach]

> > I'm not sure of the others, but I have confirmed that 3.2 will not
> > build a working linuxbios and 2.96 will (on Redhat 8.0). The
>
> problems are
> > in the MP table creation and/or parsing.

gcc 2.96 is not a real release, more of a redhat branch off the 3.0 dev tree
that gnu disavows.  There are notes somewhere about this but I couldn't
quickly find the link.  I would consider anything that 2.96 does or does not
do, to be a laboratory curiosity.  Can you compile a linux kernel with
either 2.96 or 3.2?

I think debian installs 2.95.4, but also has a 3.0 version.  I use 2.95.x
and have no problems.

-Steve