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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>, Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: Build failures with gcc 4.5 and older
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2018 10:20:32 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+55aFy0SFGaNmzCcpwMCeY_f3ZTG54NmV3SosbK6=QdE20=5A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180814170904.GA12768@roeck-us.net>

On Tue, Aug 14, 2018 at 10:09 AM Guenter Roeck <linux@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.

We had some other reasons to just say gcc-4.6 is the minimum version anyway.

            Linus

  reply	other threads:[~2018-08-14 17:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-08-14 17:09 Build failures with gcc 4.5 and older Guenter Roeck
2018-08-14 17:20 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2018-08-14 17:36   ` Guenter Roeck
2018-08-14 20:19     ` Tony Luck
2018-08-15 16:09       ` Tony Luck
2018-08-15 16:34         ` Linus Torvalds
2018-08-16  0:27           ` Guenter Roeck
2018-08-15 16:49         ` Guenter Roeck
2018-08-14 17:48 ` Joe Perches
2018-08-19 21:23   ` Kees Cook
2018-08-20 17:46   ` Nick Desaulniers
2018-08-20 18:34     ` Linus Torvalds
2018-08-14 21:36 ` Andrew Morton
2018-08-14 22:15   ` Guenter Roeck
2018-08-14 23:02     ` Andrew Morton
2018-08-14 23:20       ` Linus Torvalds
2018-08-15  1:02         ` Guenter Roeck
2018-08-20 14:53           ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-08-20 16:00             ` Arnd Bergmann
2018-08-15 12:40 ` David Laight
2018-08-15 15:44   ` Linus Torvalds
2018-08-15 16:18     ` David Laight
2018-08-15 16:33       ` Linus Torvalds
2018-08-16  9:17         ` David Laight

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