Re: [PATCH v4 2/4] Add the latent_entropy gcc plugin

Christoph Hellwig
2016-06-21T14:15:49Z

On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 08:41:19PM +0200, Emese Revfy wrote:
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/scripts/gcc-plugins/latent_entropy_plugin.c
> @@ -0,0 +1,639 @@
> +/*
> + * Copyright 2012-2016 by the PaX Team <pageexec@freemail.hu>
> + * Copyright 2016 by Emese Revfy <re.emese@gmail.com>
> + * Licensed under the GPL v2
> + *
> + * Note: the choice of the license means that the compilation process is
> + * NOT 'eligible' as defined by gcc's library exception to the GPL v3,
> + * but for the kernel it doesn't matter since it doesn't link against
> + * any of the gcc libraries

I remember we used to have architectures that actually linked against
libgcc. Isn't that the case anymore?