Messages in this thread | | | From | David Laight <> | Subject | RE: [PATCH v5 0/2] Remove false-positive VLAs when using max() | Date | Mon, 19 Mar 2018 09:43:13 +0000 |
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From: linus971@gmail.com [mailto:linus971@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Linus Torvalds > Sent: 18 March 2018 23:36 ... > > Yeah, and since we're in the situation that *new* gcc versions work > for us anyway, and we only have issues with older gcc's (that sadly > people still use), even if there was a new cool feature we couldn't > use it.
Is it necessary to have the full checks for old versions of gcc?
Even -Wvla could be predicated on very recent gcc - since we aren't worried about whether gcc decides to generate a vla, but whether the source requests one.
David
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