[ILUG] GCC versions on CentOS

[Paul Jakma]

On Wed, 1 Feb 2006, Niall O Broin wrote:

> I have a VMware guest which is running CentOS 4.2. I am trying to 
> install the VMware tools but the build process fails because it 
> says that I am using gcc 3.4.4 but the kernel I am using (latest = 
> 2.6.9-22.0.2.EL) is built with gcc 3.4.5 and this could lead to 
> incompatibilities and crashes.

That seems unlikely. Presuming neither is buggy, C calling 
conventions are /really/ stable. Only significant thing really is 
register-parameters, but as long as you use the same compiler options 
as your kernel was built with.. (which, if the modules' build setup 
is good, it should do automatically).

regards,
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