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Joe Perches authored
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>
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