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

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Wed, Apr 9, 2025, at 20:09, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 09, 2025 at 10:42:19AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> 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.

Right, I don't think there is any sensible way to support plugins
with my cross compilers, because that requires building the plugin
on a developer's machine and link it against the compiler I statically
linked against a specific libstdc++ to avoid runtime compatibility
problems.

       Arnd