On Mon, 2018-02-12 at 09:26 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 11, 2018 at 10:13:44AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> > That actually sounds like we could just
> > 
> >  (a) make gcc 4.5 be the minimum required version
> > 
> >  (b) actually error out if we find a bad compiler
> 
> So the unofficial plan was to enforce asm-goto and -fentry support by
> hard failure to build, which would get us at gcc-4.6 and then remove all
> the fallback cruft needed for those features -- for x86. If we want to
> do this tree wide, that's obviously OK with me too ;-)

This would also kill clang support, right?

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