Re: [PATCH] Raise the minimum required gcc version to 4.6

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Tue Aug 21 2018 - 15:40:53 EST


On Mon, Aug 20, 2018 at 11:56 PM Masahiro Yamada
<yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> This broke Clang build.

As mentioned elsewhere, I think the clang build was broken before anyway?

> I sent a patch.
>
> https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/976025/

Yeah, I'd rather just have the clang case have its own file, instead
of be back in the situation where clang depends on gcc and then has a
different versioning model so we need to have insane clang version
tests in the gcc file.

Linus