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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
	Michael McConnell <soruk@eridani.co.uk>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: MAINTAINERS file out of date?
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 08:56:30 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46321D2E.7000400@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200704271234.32679.ak@suse.de>

Andi Kleen wrote:
>> A lot of that code (although, of course, not all) could be written in C,
>> though.  I'm thinking of taking a stab at rewriting it that way.
> 
> That would require a new compiler, right? I don't think that would
> make users very happy.
> 
> Besides the code is not exactly that maintenance intensive and only
> changes rarely so I don't need a pressing need to rewrite it

No, it would not need a new compiler.  All it requires is gcc plus a
reasonably recent binutils which you need anyway.

	-hpa

  reply	other threads:[~2007-04-27 15:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-04-26 22:19 Michael McConnell
2007-04-26 23:13 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-04-27  1:09   ` WANG Cong
2007-04-27  1:12     ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-04-27  2:32       ` WANG Cong
2007-04-27  4:22         ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-04-27  5:16           ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-04-27  5:24             ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-04-27  5:27               ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-04-27 10:28                 ` WANG Cong
2007-04-27 15:55                   ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-04-27 10:34             ` Andi Kleen
2007-04-27 15:56               ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2007-04-27 17:02                 ` Eric W. Biederman

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