On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 8:47 AM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> For the record, that seems to mean that moving to gcc-4.8
> would likely not cause a lot of problems and would let us do
> some other cleanups, but unfortunately would not help with
> the compound literals.
Yeah, that's certainly less than wonderful.
That said, there's no way in hell we'll support gcc-4 for another 7
years (eg Suse 12-sp4), so at _some_ point the EOL dates aren't even
relevant any more.
But it does look like we can't just say "gcc-5.1 is ok". Darn.
Linus
