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; -- Kirill A. Shutemov
