Re: Linux 6.11-rc1

[Linus Torvalds]

On Tue, 30 Jul 2024 at 13:04, Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Maybe I should just switch to a more recent version of gcc and call it a day,
> in the hope that it is a compiler (or qemu) problem and doesn't just hide
> the problem.

Well, if it's a gcc-11 problem, I think we still really want to know
what is going on. We are *not* all that close to dropping support for
gcc-11 yet.

And honestly, while it's often very convenient to blame the compiler,
compiler bugs are still very rare.

It's *much* more common that bad code just happens to work with a good
compiler than that good code happens to break with a bad compiler.

Yes, we obviously do hit real compiler bugs, but still ... We'd need
to actually see what goes wrong in the code generation before blaming
a compiler bug.

                  Linus