Re: Build failure with v4.9-rc1 and GCC trunk -- compiler weirdness

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Wed Oct 19 2016 - 12:01:54 EST


On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 8:56 AM, Markus Trippelsdorf
<markus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 2016.10.19 at 08:55 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>>
>> Well, in the meantime we apparently have to live with it. Unless Will
>> is using some unreleased gcc version that nobody else is using and we
>> can just ignore it?
>
> Yes, he is using gcc-7 that is unreleased. (It will be released April
> next year.)

Ahh, self-built? So it's not part of some experimental ARM distro
setup and this will be annoying lots of people?

If so, still think that we could just get rid of the ____ilog2_NaN()
thing as it's not _that_ important, but it's certainly not very
high-priority. Will can do it in his tree too for testing, and it can
remind people to get the gcc problem fixed.

Linus