Re: [PATCH] compiler.h: Raise minimum version of GCC to 5.1 for arm64

[Masahiro Yamada]

Hi Linus,


On Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 3:43 AM Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 12:18 AM Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > So if the arguments are piling up, what is holding us back, other than
> > inertia?
>
> I think we can most certainly just try increasing the minimum version
> to 5.1 in the next merge window and see.


Just a friendly reminder.

It will be nice to increase the minimum GCC version
to GCC 5.x globally.

Now, the version check has been moved to
scripts/cc-version.sh, which is invoked from
Kconfig.

If you decide to do this, please update
'gcc_min_version' in that file.


I'd like to suggest GCC 5.2 instead of 5.1
so that we can drop the following line
from arch/powerpc/Kconfig.

if GCC_VERSION >= 50200   # plugin support on gcc <= 5.1 is buggy on PPC





> > Note that banning 4.9 for arm64 and banning it in general should be
> > two different changes in any case, as the former will need to be
> > backported to -stable kernels as well.
>
> Yes. The arm64 issue is a clear and known bug, plus I suspect gcc-4.9
> is ridiculously old in the arm64 ecosystem anyway.
>
> So the arm64 issue is a bug-fix, the follow-up of just upgrading gcc
> requirements in general would be a "keep up with the times, and allow
> those variable declarations in loops".
>
>             Linus



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Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada