linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] gcc-plugins: drop support for GCC <= 4.7

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Message-ID: <20200330054203.GA328@avx2>
Date:   Mon, 30 Mar 2020 08:42:03 +0300
From:   Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
To:     masahiroy@...nel.org
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gcc-plugins: drop support for GCC <= 4.7

> This commit drops the plugin support for GCC <= 4.7 a bit earlier,
> which allows us to dump lots of code.

4.7+ allows _Alignas, _Alignof, _Static_assert even in --std=gnu89 mode.
Very nice.