Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 2 May 2021 23:30:07 +0100 | From | Matthew Wilcox <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Raise the minimum GCC version to 5.2 |
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On Sun, May 02, 2021 at 02:08:31PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > What is relevant is what version of gcc various distributions actually > have reasonably easily available, and how old and relevant the > distributions are. We did decide that (just as an example) RHEL 7 was > too old to worry about when we updated the gcc version requirement > last time. > > Last year, Arnd and Kirill (maybe others were involved too) made a > list of distros and older gcc versions. But I don't think anybody > actually _maintains_ such a list. It would be perhaps interesting to > have some way to check what compiler versions are being offered by > different distros.
fwiw, Debian 9 aka Stretch released June 2017 had gcc 6.3 Debian 10 aka Buster released June 2019 had gcc 7.4 *and* 8.3. Debian 8 aka Jessie had gcc-4.8.4 and gcc-4.9.2.
So do we care about people who haven't bothered to upgrade userspace since 2017? If so, we can't go past 4.9.
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