Re: [GIT PULL] EFI fixes

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Wed, Jul 08, 2020 at 11:00:19AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 8, 2020 at 9:21 AM Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > It's perhaps yet another reason to just skip gcc-4.8 too, since
> > > apparently 4.9 works.
> > >
> > > gcc-4.9 really has a lot of advantages. It's where (I think) gcc
> > > basically supports all C11 things, including _Generic() but also
> > > __auto_type.
> >
> > +1
> >
> > Anybody for nay, or should we just do this?
> 
> I'll just do it. Let's see if anybody screams with a good reason. I
> hate the whole "support old compilers", it ends up not only making for
> complex code, it tends to cause these unnecessary kinds of "guys, we
> tested this really well, but that crazy compiler had a very particular
> odd issue, and it wasn't in any test box.

Excellent, thanks!