linux-kernel - Re: Conflict between sparse and commit cafa0010cd51f ("Raise the minimum required gcc version to 4.6")

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Date:   Fri, 7 Sep 2018 20:37:53 +0200
From:   Luc Van Oostenryck <luc.vanoostenryck@...il.com>
To:     Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>
Cc:     christophe.leroy@....fr, joe@...ches.com,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-sparse@...r.kernel.org, sparse@...isli.org
Subject: Re: Conflict between sparse and commit cafa0010cd51f ("Raise the
 minimum required gcc version to 4.6")

On Fri, Sep 07, 2018 at 11:19:43AM -0700, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 7, 2018 at 11:13 AM Luc Van Oostenryck wrote:
> >
> > Sparse expand these macros to the same version than the compiler used
> > to compile GCC. I find a bit strange though to have sparse v0.5.2 but
> > using an old compiler.
> 
> So Christophe must have a version of gcc < 4.6 installed somewhere?

It looks so.

> Does sparse use `cc`?

By default sparse use gcc (this can be overriden by using CC=...).

-- Luc