Re: [PATCH] kasan: Show gcc version requirements in Kconfig and Documentation

[Andrey Ryabinin]

On 04/17/2015 07:44 AM, Joe Perches wrote:
> The documentation shows a need for gcc > 4.9.2, but it's
> really >=.  The Kconfig entries don't show require versions
> so add them.  Correct a latter/later typo too.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> 
> (dropping Ingo from cc's)
> 
> On Thu, 2015-04-16 at 23:59 -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
>> On 04/16/2015 11:21 PM, Steven Rostedt wrote:
>>> I have no idea what event caused the issue :-/
>> 4.9.2+ is needed for KASan.
> 
> Perhaps the documentation and Kconfig entries could
> describe that a bit better.
> 

Could you also please mention that gcc 5+ is required to detect out of bounds accesses
to global and stack variables?



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