Re: [RFC] minimum gcc version for kernel: raise to gcc-4.3 or 4.6?

From	Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [RFC] minimum gcc version for kernel: raise to gcc-4.3 or 4.6?
Date	2017-04-24 23:00 +0200
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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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Kees Cook
Pixel Security

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Re: [RFC] minimum gcc version for kernel: raise to gcc-4.3 or 4.6? Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2017-04-16 22:00 +0200
  Re: [RFC] minimum gcc version for kernel: raise to gcc-4.3 or 4.6? Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2017-04-20 12:20 +0200
    Re: [RFC] minimum gcc version for kernel: raise to gcc-4.3 or 4.6? Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2017-04-20 22:00 +0200
      Re: [RFC] minimum gcc version for kernel: raise to gcc-4.3 or 4.6? Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2017-04-21 23:00 +0200
        Re: [RFC] minimum gcc version for kernel: raise to gcc-4.3 or 4.6? Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2017-04-21 23:10 +0200
          Re: [RFC] minimum gcc version for kernel: raise to gcc-4.3 or 4.6? "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org> - 2017-04-22 05:20 +0200
            Re: [RFC] minimum gcc version for kernel: raise to gcc-4.3 or 4.6? Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2017-04-22 17:40 +0200
              Re: [RFC] minimum gcc version for kernel: raise to gcc-4.3 or 4.6? Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> - 2017-04-23 22:20 +0200
                Re: [RFC] minimum gcc version for kernel: raise to gcc-4.3 or 4.6? Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2017-04-24 11:50 +0200
                Re: [RFC] minimum gcc version for kernel: raise to gcc-4.3 or 4.6? Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> - 2017-04-24 12:20 +0200
                Re: [RFC] minimum gcc version for kernel: raise to gcc-4.3 or 4.6? Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2017-04-24 16:20 +0200
                Re: [RFC] minimum gcc version for kernel: raise to gcc-4.3 or 4.6? "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org> - 2017-04-24 19:00 +0200
                Re: [RFC] minimum gcc version for kernel: raise to gcc-4.3 or 4.6? Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2017-04-24 19:40 +0200
                Re: [RFC] minimum gcc version for kernel: raise to gcc-4.3 or 4.6? Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> - 2017-04-24 20:20 +0200
                Re: [RFC] minimum gcc version for kernel: raise to gcc-4.3 or 4.6? "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org> - 2017-04-24 20:40 +0200
                Re: [RFC] minimum gcc version for kernel: raise to gcc-4.3 or 4.6? Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2017-04-24 22:40 +0200
                Re: [RFC] minimum gcc version for kernel: raise to gcc-4.3 or 4.6? Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2017-04-24 23:00 +0200
                Re: [RFC] minimum gcc version for kernel: raise to gcc-4.3 or 4.6? Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> - 2017-04-25 09:10 +0200
  Re: [RFC] minimum gcc version for kernel: raise to gcc-4.3 or 4.6? Suzuki K Poulose <Suzuki.Poulose@arm.com> - 2017-04-25 11:30 +0200

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