RE: [RFC PATCH 1/8] compiler/gcc: Emit build-time warning for GCC prior to version 4.8

[David Laight]

From: Nick Desaulniers
> Sent: 14 January 2020 21:39
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> Yeah, hard requirement sounds good to me. Arnd, do you have stats on which
> distros have which versions of GCC (IIRC, you had some stats for the GCC 4.6
> upgrade)? This allows us to clean up more cruft in the kernel (grep for
> GCC_VERSION).

FWIW My Ubuntu 13.04 system has gcc 4.7.3.
(Actually, looking in /usr/bin there is a copy of 4.8.1 from the original install.)

	David

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