Messages in this thread | | | From | Kees Cook <> | Date | Mon, 24 Apr 2017 13:52:24 -0700 | Subject | Re: [RFC] minimum gcc version for kernel: raise to gcc-4.3 or 4.6? |
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On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 1:30 PM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote: > How about this approach then: > > - To keep it simple, we update the README.rst to say that a minimum > gcc-4.3 is required, while recommending gcc-4.9 for all architectures > - Support for gcc-4.0 and earlier gets removed from linux/compiler.h, > and instead we add a summary of what I found, explaining that > gcc-4.1 has active users on a few architectures. > - We make the Makefile show a warning once during compilation for > gcc earlier than 4.3.
This sounds good to me!
-Kees
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