Re: [PATCH] gcc-plugins: drop support for GCC <= 4.7

[Masahiro Yamada]

Hi Kees,

On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 1:27 PM Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 08:08:32PM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> > Nobody was opposed to raising minimum GCC version to 4.8 [1]
> > So, we will drop GCC <= 4.7 support sooner or later.
> >
> > We always use C++ compiler for building plugins for GCC >= 4.8.
> >
> > This commit drops the plugin support for GCC <= 4.7 a bit earlier,
> > which allows us to dump lots of code.
> >
> > [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/1/23/545
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Thanks for getting this cleaned up! I look forward to the 4.8 version
> bump. :)
>
> Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>


Thanks for your Ack.
I will queue this up to kbuild tree,
and it will ease more kbuild cleanups.

Thanks.

-- 
Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada