RE: [PATCH v4 00/16] x86-64: Stack protector and percpu improvements

[David Laight]

From: Linus Torvalds
> Sent: 23 March 2024 17:07
> 
> On Sat, 23 Mar 2024 at 09:16, Linus Torvalds
> <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > And we might as well also do the semi-yearly compiler version review.
> > We raised the minimum to 4.9 almost four years ago, and then the jump
> > to 5.1 was first for arm64 due to a serious gcc code generation bug
> > and then globally in Sept 2021.
> 
> Looking at RHEL, I find a page that claims
> 
>   RHEL9 : gcc 11.x in app stream
>   RHEL8 : gcc 8.x or gcc 9.x in app stream.
>   RHEL7 : gcc 4.8.x

I'm running Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (and still getting updates) and that
has gcc 7.3.0.
Clearly it might be time to update/reinstall that system :-)

	David

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