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Re: [kernel-hardening] [PATCH v8 2/4] GCC plugin infrastructure

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On Thu, 2016-05-19 at 10:24 +0200, PaX Team wrote:
> On 19 May 2016 at 16:22, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> > On Wed, 2016-05-18 at 12:33 +0200, Emese Revfy wrote:
> > > Did you test the plugins with all gcc versions (4.5-6)?
> > 
> > What's the concern about gcc versions? Just not breaking the build on old
> > compilers?
> 
> the earlier plugin capable gcc versions used to install gcc headers in a somewhat
> ad-hoc manner resulting in compile time breakage for plugins and since some of
> those potentially missing headers are target specific, each target arch should
> be verified before enabling plugin support on them. things have much improved with
> gcc 5 (see https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61176) though there's still
> an occasional missing header but with wider use of plugins they will hopefully be
> discovered earlier now. 

OK thanks.

> perhaps linux-arch should be cc'ed on the plugin infrastructure
> so that arch maintainers are aware of this?

linux-arch is still fairly high traffic, so it's no guarantee arch maintainers
will see it, but it's probably worth a try.

> > I'm pretty sure powerpc big endian still builds with gcc 4.4.
> > 
> > However if Andrew's only tested on little endian, then that select should be
> > guarded with an "if CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN". And to build LE you need gcc >= 4.9.
> 
> i guess that's part of the target tuple so in general arch maintainers should test
> the target tuples used on their arch with all the supported gcc versions (speaking
> of CC, not HOSTCC/HOSTCXX).

Yeah. I think we'll probably enable it gradually as folks get time to test it.
ie. ppc64le first, then ppc64 (BE), and then 32-bit if someone is interested.

cheers

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[PATCH v8 0/4] Introduce GCC plugin infrastructure Emese Revfy <re.emese@gmail.com> - 2016-05-13 01:50 +0200
  [PATCH v8 4/4] Add sancov plugin Emese Revfy <re.emese@gmail.com> - 2016-05-13 02:00 +0200
  [PATCH v8 3/4] Add Cyclomatic complexity GCC plugin Emese Revfy <re.emese@gmail.com> - 2016-05-13 02:00 +0200
    Re: [kernel-hardening] [PATCH v8 3/4] Add Cyclomatic complexity GCC  plugin Andrew Donnellan <andrew.donnellan@au1.ibm.com> - 2016-05-18 10:30 +0200
      Re: [kernel-hardening] [PATCH v8 3/4] Add Cyclomatic complexity GCC  plugin Emese Revfy <re.emese@gmail.com> - 2016-05-18 12:50 +0200
  Re: [PATCH v8 2/4] GCC plugin infrastructure Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com> - 2016-05-17 16:30 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v8 2/4] GCC plugin infrastructure Emese Revfy <re.emese@gmail.com> - 2016-05-18 12:50 +0200
  Re: [kernel-hardening] [PATCH v8 2/4] GCC plugin infrastructure Andrew Donnellan <andrew.donnellan@au1.ibm.com> - 2016-05-18 11:00 +0200
    Re: [kernel-hardening] [PATCH v8 2/4] GCC plugin infrastructure Emese Revfy <re.emese@gmail.com> - 2016-05-18 12:30 +0200
      Re: [kernel-hardening] [PATCH v8 2/4] GCC plugin infrastructure Andrew Donnellan <andrew.donnellan@au1.ibm.com> - 2016-05-18 23:20 +0200
      Re: [kernel-hardening] [PATCH v8 2/4] GCC plugin infrastructure Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> - 2016-05-19 08:30 +0200
        Re: [kernel-hardening] [PATCH v8 2/4] GCC plugin infrastructure Andrew Donnellan <andrew.donnellan@au1.ibm.com> - 2016-05-19 08:50 +0200
        Re: [kernel-hardening] [PATCH v8 2/4] GCC plugin infrastructure "PaX Team" <pageexec@freemail.hu> - 2016-05-19 10:50 +0200
          Re: [kernel-hardening] [PATCH v8 2/4] GCC plugin infrastructure Andrew Donnellan <andrew.donnellan@au1.ibm.com> - 2016-05-20 08:30 +0200
          Re: [kernel-hardening] [PATCH v8 2/4] GCC plugin infrastructure Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> - 2016-05-20 12:20 +0200

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