On Wed, Jul 08, 2020 at 11:00:19AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Wed, Jul 8, 2020 at 9:21 AM Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > It's perhaps yet another reason to just skip gcc-4.8 too, since > > > apparently 4.9 works. > > > > > > gcc-4.9 really has a lot of advantages. It's where (I think) gcc > > > basically supports all C11 things, including _Generic() but also > > > __auto_type. > > > > +1 > > > > Anybody for nay, or should we just do this? > > I'll just do it. Let's see if anybody screams with a good reason. I > hate the whole "support old compilers", it ends up not only making for > complex code, it tends to cause these unnecessary kinds of "guys, we > tested this really well, but that crazy compiler had a very particular > odd issue, and it wasn't in any test box. Excellent, thanks!
