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Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2015 22:04:24 -0500 From: Segher Boessenkool <segher@...nel.crashing.org> To: Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org> Cc: akpm@...ux-foundation.org, mmarek@...e.cz, linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH] Support gcc 6 for building On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 12:45:43PM -0700, Andi Kleen wrote: > From: Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com> > > gcc recently switched to a new version number scheme, where every version > gets a new major version number. The current version is 5.x, the next 6.x, etc. > > The gcc git repository trunk branch just switched to report 6.x for the next > major release. > > This breaks the way Linux selects compiler-gccX.h based on the major > version. Every new version would require adding a new compiler-gccX.h file, > which wouldn't really scale. > > Let's assume that future gccs are fairly compatible (they are unlikely > to break anything Linux is relying on). So we can just keep using > compiler-gcc5.h, and select any specific differences with #if. > > Cc: Segher Boessenkool <segher@...nel.crashing.org> > Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com> Tested-by: Segher Boessenkool <segher@...nel.crashing.org> This works fine, thanks, Segher -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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