Messages in this thread | | | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Date | Sun, 19 Aug 2018 13:52:28 -0700 | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH] compiler.h: give up __compiletime_assert_fallback() |
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On Sun, Aug 19, 2018 at 1:36 PM Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com> wrote: > > On Sun, Aug 19, 2018 at 1:28 PM Linus Torvalds > <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote: > > > > Well, it turns out that we effectively stopped supporting gcc < 4.6 > > during this merge window for other reasons, so.. > > For the whole kernel (or just a particular arch)? Which commit? Do > we keep track of minimal versions somewhere?
It's effectively for the whole kernel right now. See:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20180814170904.GA12768@roeck-us.net/
although it might be fixable. Nobody really *wants* to fix it, though, because we've had that initializer issue before too, and various other issues with old gcc versions.
So we have long had reasons why we'd _want_ to upgrade to at least gcc-4.6
The "we support gcc-3.2" in Documentation/process/changes.rst is complete fantasy.
Linus
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