Re: [PATCH] [RFC, EXPERIMENTAL] allow building with --std=gnu99

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On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 08:56:50AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 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.

I don't read the picture the same way. All distributions have at least one
major release with GCC >= 5.

The first release with gcc >= 5:

- Debian 9 stretch has 6.3.0, released 2017-06-18;

- Ubuntu 15.10 wily has 5.2.1, released 2015-10-22;

- Fedora 24 has 6.1.1, released 2016-06-21;

- OpenSUSE 15 has 7.4.1, released 2018-05-25;

- RHEL 8.0 has 8.2.1, released 2019-05-06;

- SUSE 15 has 7.3.1, released 2018-06-25;

- Oracle 7.6.4 has 7.6.4, release 2019-07-18;

- Slackware 14.2 has 5.3.0, released 2016-07-01;

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 Kirill A. Shutemov



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