Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] kernel: add support for gcc 5 | From | Joe Perches <> | Date | Thu, 04 Sep 2014 20:58:52 -0700 |
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On Thu, 2014-09-04 at 23:37 -0400, Sasha Levin wrote: > On 09/04/2014 07:47 PM, Joe Perches wrote: > > On Fri, 2014-09-05 at 00:43 +0200, Hannes Frederic Sowa wrote: > >> > Most statements are already depending on GCC_VERSION, maybe we can just > >> > unify all gcc specific headers to one, still trying to keep the file > >> > organized? ;) > > Maybe something like: > > > > gnu development of gcc will be more frequent and the use of > > compiler-gcc<major>.h likely will not be convenient anymore. > > > > Integrate the individual compiler-gcc<major>.h files into > > compiler-gcc.h. > > Please no. We have a similar file we maintain in our team that's supposed to > do something very similar for kernel versions. It goes all the way back to > 2.6.9 and it's a *horrible* mess. > > This is how compiler-gcc.h will end up looking in a while.
As gcc options are generally upward compatible, I don't think it will but there's no great way to predict the future.
It wouldn't be as complicated as say backports.
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