On Wed, 14 Mar 2018 16:41:00 -0400 Doug Ledford <dledford@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 2018-03-13 at 14:51 -0700, akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > From: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Subject: drivers/infiniband/core/verbs.c: fix build with gcc-4.4.4 > > > > gcc-4.4.4 has issues with initialization of anonymous unions. > > That compiler was released in April of 2010, almost a full 8 years ago. > What still uses it, and do we seriously care? Documentation/Changes still says gcc-3.2. A few people are using the older versions. There's talk going around about requiring something more recent but nothing has happened yet.