On Fri, 2019-09-20 at 21:26 -0400, Hui Peng wrote:
> I want to confirm the patches.
> 
> Which version of GCC do you use to compile 3.16?
> 
> I tried gcc-4.8, it seems that the built kernel can not be boot by qemu.
[...]

For my own limited testing, I build for x86 with gcc 4.9.  Debian's
packages are built with gcc 4.8 (arm) or 4.9 (x86).

Guenter Roeck does build and boot tests on multiple architectures using
a variety of (mostly quite recent) compiler versions.

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
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