Re: [PATCH v6 0/6] Introduce GCC plugin infrastructure

Kees Cook
2016-04-12T19:46:38Z

On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 11:41 AM, David Brown <david.brown@linaro.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 11:27:52AM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
>
>> Awesome! Thanks for testing this. I still need to finish getting my
>> arm64 environment built...
>
>
> I've been using:
> http://releases.linaro.org/components/toolchain/binaries/
>
> for most stuff.
>
>> Do you happen to know if there's already a gcc bug open for the make
>> install problem?
>
>
> Linaro toolchain bug:
> https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2123
>
> Patch to fix it
> https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2016-03/msg00522.html
>
> It is supposed to be included in the linaro 5.3-2016.03 snapshot.
> I've pinged Christophe to see if I can get any insight into when that
> will be available.

Looks like it's in the upstream tree:

https://gcc.gnu.org/git/?p=gcc.git;a=commitdiff;h=bfe972081c3c75019fa5a6e883dcbeb5e03eea18

I'm not sure how GCC does bug fix releases. Is this going to be in 5.4
or 5.3.1? (Is there such a thing as 5.3.1 planned?) I've CCed Jeff in
case he's got a moment to peek at this.

> It is kind of nice to see that when it fails, it prints a helpful
> message, though:
>
> scripts/Makefile.gcc-plugins:22: *** error, your gcc installation does not
> support plugins, perhaps the necessary headers are missing?. Stop.
>
> I think it is OK to include this, even with the patches still bubbling
> through gcc releases. It prints a helpful message when it doesn't
> work, and is only going to be selected if specifically requested.

Yeah, absolutely. It works on the other architectures, and will soon
work on arm64 too.

-Kees

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Kees Cook
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