On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 10:29 PM, Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > If the target compiler is GCC 4.8 or newer, plugins are compiled with > HOSTCXX. Otherwise, gcc-plugin.sh will select HOSTCC or HOSTCXX. > > To simplify things, drop the HOSTCC support for plugins. If you use > GCC plugins, the requirement for the target compiler is GCC 4.8 (or > older compiler with necessary features backported). This is a feature > for advanced users, so this requirement would not be a big deal. > Currently, building plugins requires GCC 4.5, so this is not a big jump. Emese already NAKed this, and I'd agree. 4.5 to 4.8 is quite a jump (see all the threads on minimum gcc versions). Until we're at 4.8 as a minimum, let's leave this as-is. "To simply things" doesn't seem like a good enough reason to me. -Kees -- Kees Cook Pixel Security -- 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
