Messages in this thread |  | | From | Geert Uytterhoeven <> | Date | Sun, 11 Feb 2018 23:29:29 +0100 | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH 4/7] kconfig: support new special property shell= |
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On Sun, Feb 11, 2018 at 10:10 PM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote: > On Sun, Feb 11, 2018 at 9:06 PM, Linus Torvalds > <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote: >> On Sun, Feb 11, 2018 at 11:53 AM, Linus Torvalds >> <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote: >>> >>> Well, it's still not a very *big* bump. With modern distros being at >>> 7.3, and people testing pre-releases of gcc-8, something like gcc-4.5 >>> is still pretty darn ancient. >> >> ... it's worth noting that our _documentation_ may claim that gcc-3.2 >> is the minimum supported version, but Arnd pointed out that a few >> months ago that apparently nothing older than 4.1 has actually worked >> for a longish while, and gcc-4.3 was needed on several architectures. >> >> So the _real_ jump in required gcc version would be from 4.1 (4.3 in >> many cases) to 4.5, not from our documented "3.2 minimum". >> >> Arnd claimed that some architectures needed even newer-than-4.3, but I >> assume that's limited to things like RISC-V that simply don't have old >> gcc support at all. > > Right. Also architecture specific features may need something more recent, > and in some cases like the 'initializer for anonymous union needs extra > curly braces', a trivial change would make it work, but a lot of architectures > have obviously never been built with toolchains old enough to actually > run into those cases. > > Geert is the only person I know that actively uses gcc-4.1, and he actually > sent some patches that seem to get additional architectures to build on > that version, when they were previously on gcc-4.3+.
And as long as gcc-4.1 helps me finding real bugs (which it did for the current merge window), I plan to keep on using it.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
-- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org
In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds
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