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Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2018 08:04:40 -0800
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To: Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@...il.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] kernel.h: Skip single-eval logic on literals in min()/max()
On Fri, Mar 9, 2018 at 11:03 PM, Miguel Ojeda
<miguel.ojeda.sandonis@...il.com> wrote:
>
> Just compiled 4.9.0 and it seems to work -- so that would be the
> minimum required.
>
> Sigh...
>
> Some enterprise distros are either already shipping gcc >= 5 or will
> probably be shipping it soon (e.g. RHEL 8), so how much does it hurt
> to ask for a newer gcc? Are there many users/companies out there using
> enterprise distributions' gcc to compile and run the very latest
> kernels?
I wouldn't mind upping the compiler requirements, and we have other
reasons to go to 4.6.
But _this_ particular issue doesn't seem worth it to then go even
further. Annoying.
Linus
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