Hi, guys,

I am trying to build gcc-3.3.6 from Index of /mirrors/gcc/releases/gcc-3.3.6 (bigsearcher.com)<https://bigsearcher.com/mirrors/gcc/releases/gcc-3.3.6/> ,
the following error message occurred. Could you please tell me how to fix it?

My host computer: Dell Inspiron 16 plus 7630.
GCC on host: gcc (Ubuntu 11.4.0-1ubuntu1~22.04) 11.4.0
under WSL.

Why do I want to build gcc-3.3.6? because I want to use it to build Linux Kernel 2.4.36. It was requested to build Linux Kernel 2.4.36 with the GCC version < 4.2. (please see: home/dingjun/build_cross_gcc/linux-2.4.36/include/linux/compiler.h:45:2: error: #error "GCC >= 4.2 miscompiles kernel 2.4, do not use it!"
   45 | #error "GCC >= 4.2 miscompiles kernel 2.4, do not use it!")


I tried several gcc version (<4.2) and almost each one has some errors. Could you some tell me which gcc(<4.2 version) source codes are 100% sure to be built without errors?

Thanks & regards,

Dingjun


/***** an error occurred when building gcc-3.3.6************/
In file included from ./config.h:17,
                 from f/proj.h:30,
                 from f/com.c:83:
./tree.h:2244:55: note: expected ‘const char *’ but argument is of type ‘unsigned char *’
 2244 | extern tree build_string                PARAMS ((int, const char *));
      |                                                       ^~~~~~~~~~~~
./../include/ansidecl.h:152:33: note: in definition of macro ‘PARAMS’
  152 | #define PARAMS(ARGS)            ARGS
      |                                 ^~~~
f/com.c: At top level:
f/com.c:11079:1: error: conflicting types for ‘ffecom_gfrt_basictype’; have ‘ffeinfoBasictype(ffecomGfrt)’
11079 | ffecom_gfrt_basictype (ffecomGfrt gfrt)
      | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
In file included from f/com.c:124:
f/com.h:236:17: note: previous declaration of ‘ffecom_gfrt_basictype’ with type ‘ffeinfoKindtype(ffecomGfrt)’
  236 | ffeinfoKindtype ffecom_gfrt_basictype (ffecomGfrt ix);
      |                 ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
f/com.c: In function ‘ffecom_init_0’:
f/com.c:11624:28: warning: comparison between ‘ffeinfoKindtype’ and ‘enum <anonymous>’ [-Wenum-compare]
11624 |   if (ffecom_pointer_kind_ == FFEINFO_basictypeNONE)
      |                            ^~
In file included from f/com.c:16573:
./gt-f-com.h: In function ‘gt_ggc_mx_lang_tree_node’:
./gt-f-com.h:65:7: warning: switch condition has boolean value [-Wswitch-bool]
   65 |       switch (TREE_CODE (&((*x)).generic) == IDENTIFIER_NODE)
      |       ^~~~~~
f/com.c: In function ‘ffe_mark_addressable’:
f/com.c:14300:9: warning: this statement may fall through [-Wimplicit-fallthrough=]
14300 |         put_var_into_stack (x, /*rescan=*/true);
      |         ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
f/com.c:14303:7: note: here
14303 |       case FUNCTION_DECL:
      |       ^~~~
f/com.c:14304:30: warning: this statement may fall through [-Wimplicit-fallthrough=]
14304 |         TREE_ADDRESSABLE (x) = 1;
f/com.c:14310:7: note: here
14310 |       default:
      |       ^~~~~~~
make[1]: *** [Makefile:735: f/com.o] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/dingjun/build_cross_gcc/gcc-3.3.6/gcc'
make: *** [Makefile:1546: all-gcc] Error 2
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