On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 1:30 PM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > How about this approach then: > > - To keep it simple, we update the README.rst to say that a minimum > gcc-4.3 is required, while recommending gcc-4.9 for all architectures > - Support for gcc-4.0 and earlier gets removed from linux/compiler.h, > and instead we add a summary of what I found, explaining that > gcc-4.1 has active users on a few architectures. > - We make the Makefile show a warning once during compilation for > gcc earlier than 4.3. This sounds good to me! -Kees -- Kees Cook Pixel Security