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Subject: [kernel-hardening] Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] Add Cyclomatic complexity GCC plugin
To: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: linux-kbuild <linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org>, PaX Team <pageexec@freemail.hu>, Brad Spengler <spender@grsecurity.net>, "kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com" <kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com>, Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com>, Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
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On Wed, 17 Feb 2016 16:27:22 -0800
Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> wrote:

> It's a shame there's been so much churn with gcc's plugin API. I
> wonder if it might make sense to choose 5.0 as the supported compiler
> version for this feature, just to cut down on all the ifdef noise. For
> now, let's keep it as-is, though.

I think it is important to support all gcc versions as there are a lot of distros that
use older gcc versions than 5.

I made a pass structure generator, you can see it on my github:
https://github.com/ephox-gcc-plugins/gcc-plugins_linux-next/commits/plugins

I didn't resend the patches yet because I usually wait until there are no more comments
for the previous series.

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Emese