From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.8 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS, UNPARSEABLE_RELAY autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53DE9C43461 for ; Sun, 2 May 2021 20:00:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 377F061244 for ; Sun, 2 May 2021 20:00:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S232517AbhEBUB2 (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 May 2021 16:01:28 -0400 Received: from smtprelay0141.hostedemail.com ([216.40.44.141]:45368 "EHLO smtprelay.hostedemail.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S232427AbhEBUB1 (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 May 2021 16:01:27 -0400 Received: from omf06.hostedemail.com (clb03-v110.bra.tucows.net [216.40.38.60]) by smtprelay03.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5F31837F27B; Sun, 2 May 2021 20:00:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [HIDDEN] (Authenticated sender: joe@perches.com) by omf06.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 7C6732448B6; Sun, 2 May 2021 20:00:30 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <81a926a3bdb70debe3ae2b13655ea8d249fb9991.camel@perches.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH] Raise the minimum GCC version to 5.2 From: Joe Perches To: Segher Boessenkool Cc: Miguel Ojeda , Masahiro Yamada , Albert Ou , Arnd Bergmann , Linux Kbuild mailing list , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Jonathan Corbet , Linux Doc Mailing List , linux-kernel , Linus Torvalds , Palmer Dabbelt , Paul Walmsley , Catalin Marinas , Miguel Ojeda , Paul Mackerras , linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, Will Deacon , Linux ARM Date: Sun, 02 May 2021 13:00:28 -0700 In-Reply-To: <20210502183030.GF10366@gate.crashing.org> References: <20210501151538.145449-1-masahiroy@kernel.org> <3943bc020f6227c8801907317fc113aa13ad4bad.camel@perches.com> <20210502183030.GF10366@gate.crashing.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" User-Agent: Evolution 3.38.1-1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Rspamd-Server: rspamout05 X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 7C6732448B6 X-Stat-Signature: 71ockug33zmqd9a3epysnu3hfs3ubiyr X-Session-Marker: 6A6F6540706572636865732E636F6D X-Session-ID: U2FsdGVkX19QpxupLlF/RmMAnwgGtoo8JZ2oBi/jlKM= X-HE-Tag: 1619985630-933791 Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, 2021-05-02 at 13:30 -0500, Segher Boessenkool wrote: > On Sat, May 01, 2021 at 07:41:53PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote: > > Why not raise the minimum gcc compiler version even higher? On Sun, 2021-05-02 at 13:37 -0500, Segher Boessenkool wrote: > Everyone should always use an as new release as practical [] > The latest GCC 5 release is only three and a half years old. You argue slightly against yourself here. Yes, it's mostly a question of practicality vs latest. clang requires a _very_ recent version. gcc _could_ require a later version. Perhaps 8 might be best as that has a __diag warning control mechanism. gcc 8.1 is now 3 years old today.