From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>,
Russell King - ARM Linux admin <linux@armlinux.org.uk>,
Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>,
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org>,
"Cc: Android Kernel" <kernel-team@android.com>,
Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>,
Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] compiler.h: Raise minimum version of GCC to 5.1 for arm64
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2021 16:30:45 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <eabb211c3ba394845ec3258d86406137f4c23b33.camel@perches.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHk-=wjgvt1Ei72BTrEH5fgfqykVH-AYt56-7yBT8Lcprj7bEg@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, 2021-01-14 at 13:18 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 11:52 AM Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> wrote:
> >
> > Given the upgrade requirement, and how clang version requirements
> > constantly change, how much more difficult would it be for others
> > to use gcc 7.1 or higher now instead of later?
>
> What was the argument for jumping all the way to gcc-7.1?
>
> I do think we want to have real reasons we can point to, rather than a
> "just because".
KASAN v5 instead of all the old versions
gcc 7.1 supports fallthrough.
Probably more, but those might be sufficient.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-01-15 0:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-01-12 22:48 [PATCH] compiler.h: Raise minimum version of GCC to 5.1 for arm64 Will Deacon
2021-01-12 22:57 ` Nick Desaulniers
2021-01-12 23:06 ` Nathan Chancellor
2021-01-13 2:14 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-01-13 2:35 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-01-13 15:02 ` Catalin Marinas
2021-01-13 16:07 ` Catalin Marinas
2021-01-13 17:57 ` Masahiro Yamada
2021-01-13 18:33 ` Joe Perches
2021-01-13 19:15 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-01-13 21:44 ` Russell King - ARM Linux admin
2021-01-13 22:08 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-01-14 8:18 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2021-01-14 18:43 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-01-14 19:51 ` Joe Perches
2021-01-14 21:18 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-01-15 0:30 ` Joe Perches [this message]
2021-01-15 23:24 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-02-27 7:16 ` Masahiro Yamada
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