On Wed, Oct 05, 2016 at 10:32:50AM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > On Wed, Oct 05, 2016 at 02:51:32PM +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote: > > > I'm using 16.04 and it has gcc 5.4.0 as a default. Don't you think that > > 6.2 is too "new" for us and other distributions? > > I don't understand how a compiler can be too new? The next round of > rolling release distros are likely to use this compiler, and those are > the distros that will first pick to up rdma-core. I have an issue in front of my eyes where kernel fails to build with old gcc version, while new gcc version works. I don't want the same situation here. > > > gcc (Ubuntu 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.2) 5.4.0 20160609 > > This is exactly why the automatic builds should run the latest > compiler, because people are not going to install it on their desktop. > > People will test with older compilers on their own. If we want to run > automatic tests from travis with old compilers we can, but my results > basically show that older compilers are just buggy and produce > incorrect warnings. My experience shows the same, however I want to minimize the test burden on the users. > > Jason
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