Re: Build failures with gcc 4.5 and older

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Mon Aug 20 2018 - 14:34:48 EST


On Mon, Aug 20, 2018 at 10:46 AM Nick Desaulniers
<ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I think we should take Joe's patch.

I'll happily take Joe's patch and get the whole "ancient gcc versions"
issue behind us.

We'll come back to it in a few years when 4.6 is ancient too, but for
now we have no pressing need not to support it.

Joe - proper commit message and sign-off?

Linus