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