Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 16 Apr 2015 09:57:48 +0200 | From | Michal Marek <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Support gcc 6 for building |
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On 2015-04-15 21:45, Andi Kleen wrote: > From: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> > > gcc recently switched to a new version number scheme, where every version > gets a new major version number. The current version is 5.x, the next 6.x, etc. > > The gcc git repository trunk branch just switched to report 6.x for the next > major release. > > This breaks the way Linux selects compiler-gccX.h based on the major > version. Every new version would require adding a new compiler-gccX.h file, > which wouldn't really scale. > > Let's assume that future gccs are fairly compatible (they are unlikely > to break anything Linux is relying on). So we can just keep using > compiler-gcc5.h, and select any specific differences with #if.
Good idea. With the new scheme, we could also merge back compiler-gcc5.h and compiler-gcc4.h. The only difference is the KASAN_ABI_VERSION define.
Michal
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