Re: [PATCH] [RFC, EXPERIMENTAL] allow building with --std=gnu99

From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>,
	Andrew Pinski <apinski@cavium.com>,
	Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>,
	Michal Marek <michal.lkml@markovi.net>,
	mm-commits@vger.kernel.org,
	Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>,
	Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
	Kostya Serebryany <kcc@google.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	linux-arch <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kbuild mailing list <linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [RFC, EXPERIMENTAL] allow building with --std=gnu99
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2019 17:47:01 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAK8P3a1TrOippPUh6Fc_McHcp2LOerdD6ifmcieuy0bAFPvs8g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191017153755.jh6iherf2ywmwbss@box>

On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 5:37 PM Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 08:05:28AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > What distros are still stuck on gcc-4?
>
> According to Distowatch:
>
> - Debian 8.0 Jessie has 4.9.2, EOL 2020-05
>
> - Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Trusty has 4.8.2, EOL 2019-04;
>
> - Fedora 21 has 4.9.2, EOL 2015-12;
>
> - OpenSUSE 42.3 has 4.8.5, EOL 2019-06;
>
> - RHEL 7.7 has 4.8.5, EOL 2024-06;
>
> - RHEL 6.9 has 4.4.7, EOL 2020-11;
>
> - SUSE 12-SP4 has 4.8.6, EOL ?;

EOL 2024 as well, extended support 2027

> - Oracle 7.6 has 4.8.5, EOL ?;
>
> Missed somebody?

I started a similar list, the only other one I found was

Slackware 14.1 (no EOL announced): gcc-4.8

For the record, that seems to mean that moving to gcc-4.8
would likely not cause a lot of problems and would let us do
some other cleanups, but unfortunately would not help with
the compound literals.

     Arnd