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| author | Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> | 2018-08-20 23:15:26 +0300 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2018-08-21 00:12:38 +0300 |
| commit | cafa0010cd51fb711fdcb50fc55f394c5f167a0a (patch) | |
| tree | 59035cd5f8e7ea85abdd5ce278e820257f4a0663 /Documentation | |
| parent | cc26ebbebde8548014d9329ac2f6cf0178181789 (diff) | |
| download | linux-cafa0010cd51fb711fdcb50fc55f394c5f167a0a.tar.xz | |
Raise the minimum required gcc version to 4.6
Various architectures fail to build properly with older versions of the
gcc compiler.
An example from Guenter Roeck in thread [1]:
>
> In file included from ./include/linux/mm.h:17:0,
> from ./include/linux/pid_namespace.h:7,
> from ./include/linux/ptrace.h:10,
> from arch/openrisc/kernel/asm-offsets.c:32:
> ./include/linux/mm_types.h:497:16: error: flexible array member in otherwise empty struct
>
> This is just an example with gcc 4.5.1 for or32. I have seen the problem
> with gcc 4.4 (for unicore32) as well.
So update the minimum required version of gcc to 4.6.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20180814170904.GA12768@roeck-us.net/
Miscellanea:
- Update Documentation/process/changes.rst
- Remove and consolidate version test blocks in compiler-gcc.h for
versions lower than 4.6
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/process/changes.rst | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/process/changes.rst b/Documentation/process/changes.rst index 7a92a06f90de..61f918b10a0c 100644 --- a/Documentation/process/changes.rst +++ b/Documentation/process/changes.rst @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ you probably needn't concern yourself with isdn4k-utils. ====================== =============== ======================================== Program Minimal version Command to check the version ====================== =============== ======================================== -GNU C 3.2 gcc --version +GNU C 4.6 gcc --version GNU make 3.81 make --version binutils 2.20 ld -v flex 2.5.35 flex --version |