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On Tue, 2020-02-25 at 13:56 -0800, Kees Cook wrote:
> I think we should take a specific version stand as the
> "minimum" version. Being able to build x86 defconfig is a good minimum
> IMO.

Agree.

It's odd to say that clang 4 is fine for arm when it's
not fine for x86.  It's also reasonable to expect arm
users to upgrade their compiler to a more recent version
when the only cost is a very small bit of time.