On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 8:19 AM, David Woodhouse <dw...@infradead.org> wrote: > 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?
That would be bad: Android exclusively builds with clang. -Kees -- Kees Cook Pixel Security
