Hi Arnd, On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 8:58 PM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Friday, December 16, 2016 4:54:33 PM CET Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: >> On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 11:56 AM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > Specifically on ARM, going further makes things rather useless especially >> > for build testing: with gcc-4.2, we lose support for ARMv7, EABI, and >> > effectively ARMv6 (as it relies on EABI for building reliably). Also, >> > the number of false-positive build warnings is so high that it is useless >> > for finding actual bugs from the warnings. >> >> If you start with that activity now, there's indeed a massive amount of >> warnings to look into. >> However, I've been build testing various configs with m68k-linux-gnu-gcc-4.1.2 >> and looking at the compiler warnings for years, so I only have to look >> at new warnings. > > What's the reason for sticking with gcc-4.1? Does this actually work better > for you than a more recent version, or is it just whatever you installed > when you started the build testing? It's just the cross compiler I built .debs of a long time ago. As long as it works, I see no reason to upgrade, especially as long as I see warnings for bugs that no one else is seeing. But lately you started beating me with newer gccs ;-) Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html