Re: [PATCH 20/23] gcc-plugins: always build plugins with C++

[Emese Revfy]

On Sat, 17 Feb 2018 03:38:48 +0900
Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> If the target compiler is GCC 4.8 or newer, plugins are compiled with
> HOSTCXX.  Otherwise, gcc-plugin.sh will select HOSTCC or HOSTCXX.
> 
> To simpily things, let's decide GCC 4.8 is the requirement for GCC
> pulgins.  With this, plugins are always built with HOSTCXX.  This is a
> feature of advanced users, so this requirement whould not be not a big
> issue.

I disagree with such a decision. I think the gcc plugins should compile
with older version because the kernel can be compiled with them too.
The distros use these older versions as well and I can very well imagine
that new plugins will extend these with backported features such as
my sancov plugin.

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Emese