Drop the superfluous test for an old version of gcc.

Linux kernel mirror (for testing) git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git

kernel os linux

The header file <linux/compiler.h> already enforces a suitably recent
version of gcc, so there's no point checking for that again.

Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>

authored by

Robert P. J. Day and committed by

Adrian Bunk 18 years ago d8af7c6a b7076156

-8

1 changed file

expand all

init

main.c

-8

init/main.c

··· 70 70 /* 71 71 * This is one of the first .c files built. Error out early if we have compiler 72 72 * trouble. 73 - * 74 - * Versions of gcc older than that listed below may actually compile and link 75 - * okay, but the end product can have subtle run time bugs. To avoid associated 76 - * bogus bug reports, we flatly refuse to compile with a gcc that is known to be 77 - * too old from the very beginning. 78 73 */ 79 - #if (__GNUC__ < 3) || (__GNUC__ == 3 && __GNUC_MINOR__ < 2) 80 - #error Sorry, your GCC is too old. It builds incorrect kernels. 81 - #endif 82 74 83 75 #if __GNUC__ == 4 && __GNUC_MINOR__ == 1 && __GNUC_PATCHLEVEL__ == 0 84 76 #warning gcc-4.1.0 is known to miscompile the kernel. A different compiler version is recommended.