Re: [PATCH] gcc-plugins: Disable GCC plugins for compile test builds

[Mark Brown]

On Wed, Apr 09, 2025 at 10:42:19AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Apr 2025 at 10:29, Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > Sadly it seems like the build bots didn't find it, or at least if they
> > found it they didn't identify it well enough to end up with reporting
> > the issue to someone who'd fix it.

> I wouldn't be entirely surpised if a lot of the build bots end up
> running old distros (because "enterprise").

I know bunch of them are running Debian, often with a default GCC of
whatever the base Debian version they're running has at any given time.

> So this is presumably only happening with certain compiler versions,
> and I expect the build bots have a fairly small set of compilers they
> end up testing.

Yeah.  The other problem we have is that AFAIK unlike clang we don't
really have people actively working on GCC coverage specifically,
everyone mostly just assumes everyone else is doing it since GCC is the
default (me being as guilty of that as everyone else here).  The work
Arnd's doing is the nearest thing I'm aware of but that's more
intermittent and I gather his toolchains don't have plugins enabled
which wouldn't help here.

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