Re: linux-4.1-rc7 and dev versions of gcc

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On Tue, Jun 09, 2015 at 07:35:58AM +0000, David Binderman wrote:
> Hello there,
> 
> Recent development versions of gcc have started using the 6.0.0 version number.
> 
> gcc version 6.0.0 20150607 (experimental) (GCC) 
> 
> Linux kernel doesn't understand any gcc version numbers beyond 5.
> 
> include/linux/compiler-gcc3.h  
> include/linux/compiler-gcc4.h 
> include/linux/compiler-gcc5.h
> 
> Kernel build fails because no compiler-gcc6.h file.
> 
> I have a temporary bodge to copy compiler-gcc5.h file into compiler-gcc6.h

This shouldn't be a Sparse issue.  As discussed previously on this list
and LKML, Sparse should probably declare a specific GCC version number,
*not* the latest.  Apart from that, handling GCC 6 has been discussed on
LKML previously, and I think there were some patches circulating
already.

- Josh Triplett
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