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SubjectRe: [PATCH v4 1/3] compiler-gcc.h: add gnu_inline to all inline declarations
On Fri, Jun 8, 2018 at 9:59 AM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 7, 2018 at 10:49 PM, Nick Desaulniers
> <ndesaulniers@google.com> wrote:
>> Functions marked extern inline do not emit an externally visible
>> function when the gnu89 C standard is used. Some KBUILD Makefiles
>> overwrite KBUILD_CFLAGS. This is an issue for GCC 5.1+ users as without
>> an explicit C standard specified, the default is gnu11. Since c99, the
>> semantics of extern inline have changed such that an externally visible
>> function is always emitted. This can lead to multiple definition errors
>> of extern inline functions at link time of compilation units whose build
>> files have removed an explicit C standard compiler flag for users of GCC
>> 5.1+ or Clang.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
>> Suggested-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
>> Suggested-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
>
> I suspect this will break Geert's gcc-4.1.2, which I think doesn't have that
> attribute yet (4.1.3 or higher have it according to the documentation.
>
> It wouldn't be hard to work around that if we want to keep that version
> working, or we could decide that it's time to officially stop supporting
> that version, but we should probably decide on one or the other.
>

Good point.
What is the minimum requirement of GCC version currently?
AFAICS x86/asm-goto support requires GCC >= 4.5?

Just FYI...
...saw the last days in upstream commits that kbuild/kconfig for
4.18-rc1 offers possibilities to check for cc-version dependencies.

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