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| author |   Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> | 2020-01-22 19:38:21 +0000 |
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| committer | Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> | 2020-04-15 21:36:20 +0100 |
| commit | 5429ef62bcf360aae06740cbe065be01e5cfb6fc (patch) | |
| tree | 5b9078d844f38350b67e5e4c96b414aaf5acc56d /Documentation/process | |
| parent | Linux 5.7-rc1 (diff) | |
| download | linux-dev-5429ef62bcf360aae06740cbe065be01e5cfb6fc.tar.xz linux-dev-5429ef62bcf360aae06740cbe065be01e5cfb6fc.zip | |
compiler/gcc: Raise minimum GCC version for kernel builds to 4.8
It is very rare to see versions of GCC prior to 4.8 being used to build
the mainline kernel. These old compilers are also know to have codegen
issues which can lead to silent miscompilation:
https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58145
Raise the minimum GCC version for kernel build to 4.8 and remove some
tautological Kconfig dependencies as a consequence.
Cc: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/process')
| -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 91c5ff8e161e..5cfb54c2aaa6 100644 --- a/Documentation/process/changes.rst +++ b/Documentation/process/changes.rst @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ you probably needn't concern yourself with pcmciautils. ====================== =============== ======================================== Program Minimal version Command to check the version ====================== =============== ======================================== -GNU C 4.6 gcc --version +GNU C 4.8 gcc --version GNU make 3.81 make --version binutils 2.23 ld -v flex 2.5.35 flex --version |