On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 04:19:22PM +0000, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Mon, 2018-02-12 at 09:26 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 11, 2018 at 10:13:44AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > > That actually sounds like we could just > > > > > > (a) make gcc 4.5 be the minimum required version > > > > > > (b) actually error out if we find a bad compiler > > > > So the unofficial plan was to enforce asm-goto and -fentry support by > > hard failure to build, which would get us at gcc-4.6 and then remove all > > the fallback cruft needed for those features -- for x86. If we want to > > do this tree wide, that's obviously OK with me too ;-) > > This would also kill clang support, right? Yes, not sure why I should care about that though. -- 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
