On Tue, Aug 14, 2018 at 11:02 AM Guenter Roeck <li...@roeck-us.net> wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 14, 2018 at 10:20:32AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 14, 2018 at 10:09 AM Guenter Roeck <li...@roeck-us.net> wrote: > > > > > > Does that mean that gcc 4.5 and older are now officially no longer > > > supported for compiling the kernel ? > > > > I guess we might as well make this the excuse for making that official. > > > > Maybe it's trivially fixable, but I don't even want to look at it, > > since we've talked about updating the minimum gcc version so long. > > > > > If so, would it make sense to update include/linux/compiler-gcc.h > > > accordingly ? > > > > Unless somebody cares, and comes with a trivial fix to make old > > compilers happy, let's just do that. > > > > Only implication is that it is the death warrant for unicore32, > since the only compiler available for it is gcc 4.4.2.
My ia64 test box only has 4.3.4. I seem to remember some pain points with newer versions of gcc on ia64. I need to poke around and find one new enough to get past this problem, but that still works for kernel building. -Tony
