On Sun, May 02, 2021 at 02:08:31PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > What is relevant is what version of gcc various distributions actually > have reasonably easily available, and how old and relevant the > distributions are. We did decide that (just as an example) RHEL 7 was > too old to worry about when we updated the gcc version requirement > last time. > > Last year, Arnd and Kirill (maybe others were involved too) made a > list of distros and older gcc versions. But I don't think anybody > actually _maintains_ such a list. It would be perhaps interesting to > have some way to check what compiler versions are being offered by > different distros. fwiw, Debian 9 aka Stretch released June 2017 had gcc 6.3 Debian 10 aka Buster released June 2019 had gcc 7.4 *and* 8.3. Debian 8 aka Jessie had gcc-4.8.4 and gcc-4.9.2. So do we care about people who haven't bothered to upgrade userspace since 2017? If so, we can't go past 4.9.
