Messages in this thread | | | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Date | Tue, 14 Aug 2018 10:20:32 -0700 | Subject | Re: Build failures with gcc 4.5 and older |
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On Tue, Aug 14, 2018 at 10:09 AM Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> wrote: > > Does that mean that gcc 4.5 and older are now officially no longer > supported for compiling the kernel ?
I guess we might as well make this the excuse for making that official.
Maybe it's trivially fixable, but I don't even want to look at it, since we've talked about updating the minimum gcc version so long.
> If so, would it make sense to update include/linux/compiler-gcc.h > accordingly ?
Unless somebody cares, and comes with a trivial fix to make old compilers happy, let's just do that.
We had some other reasons to just say gcc-4.6 is the minimum version anyway.
Linus
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