linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Raise the minimum GCC version to 5.2

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Date:   Sat, 01 May 2021 19:41:53 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@...il.com>,
        Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Linux Kbuild mailing list <linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>, Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@...nel.org>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Albert Ou <aou@...s.berkeley.edu>,
        Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@...belt.com>,
        Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
        Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@...ive.com>,
        Linux ARM <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Raise the minimum GCC version to 5.2

On Sat, 2021-05-01 at 17:52 +0200, Miguel Ojeda wrote:
> On Sat, May 1, 2021 at 5:17 PM Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org> wrote:
> > 
> > More cleanups will be possible as follow-up patches, but this one must
> > be agreed and applied to the mainline first.
> 
> +1 This will allow me to remove the __has_attribute hack in
> include/linux/compiler_attributes.h.

Why not raise the minimum gcc compiler version even higher?

https://gcc.gnu.org/releases.html