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Message-ID: <Zvs5ZHCc4MGkE8XK@kodidev-ubuntu>
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2024 16:51:00 -0700
From: Tony Ambardar <tony.ambardar@...il.com>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab@...ux-m68k.org>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@...der.be>,
	Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
	Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@...nel.org>, Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] compiler-gcc.h: Disable __retain on gcc-11

On Tue, Sep 24, 2024 at 07:29:46PM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> On Sep 24 2024, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> 
> > All my gcc-11 compilers (Ubuntu 11.4.0-1ubuntu1~22.04) claim to support
> > the __retain__ attribute, but only riscv64-linux-gnu-gcc-11 and
> > x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc-11 (not x86_64-linux-gnux32-gcc-11!) actually do.
> > The arm-linux-gnueabi-gcc-11.5.0 compiler from kernel.org crosstool
> > fails in the same way:
> >
> >     error: ‘retain’ attribute ignored [-Werror=attributes]
> >
> > All my gcc-12 compilers seem to support the attribute.
> 
> That ultimately depends on binutils support for SHF_GNU_RETAIN (2.36+).

IIRC from working on the original patch, older linkers which do not
support this 'R' flag would simply ignore it and not error out, making
binutils compatibility less of an issue.

> 
> -- 
> Andreas Schwab, schwab@...ux-m68k.org
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