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authorWill Deacon <will@kernel.org>2020-01-22 20:38:21 +0100
committerWill Deacon <will@kernel.org>2020-04-15 22:36:20 +0200
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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>
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====================== =============== ========================================
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