Re: [STABLE BACKPORT 4.4.y, 4.9.y and 4.14.y] compiler.h: Raise minimum version of GCC to 5.1 for arm64

From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Wed Jan 20 2021 - 03:12:09 EST


On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 12:29 AM Nathan Chancellor
<natechancellor@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 02:15:43PM -0800, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
> >
> > Merging this from stable into "Android Common Kernel" trees that were
> > built with AOSP GCC 4.9, I expect this to break some builds. Arnd,
> > IIRC did you mention that AOSP GCC had picked up a fix? If so, did
> > you verify that via disassembly, or gerrit patch file?

The only information I had was the fact that the gcc bug tracker
mentioned it being picked up into the Android gcc and gcc-linaro.
I verified that it was present in gcc-linaro, but did not also check
the Android sources.

> If so, it looks like that patch was picked up in this commit.
>
> https://android.googlesource.com/toolchain/gcc/+/5ae0308a147ec3f6502fd321860524e634a647a6

Right.

Arnd