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Message-ID: <20150416030424.GA10141@gate.crashing.org>
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
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