Re: [PATCH] gcc: clamp gcc version to most highest specific header version available

[Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>]

On Fr, 2014-09-05 at 14:09 -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Fri, 2014-09-05 at 22:39 +0200, Hannes Frederic Sowa wrote:
> > As announced in [1] gcc will increase its major number yearly but we don't
> > need to include gcc version specific quirks for every version normally.
> > 
> > This patch allows to compile every kernel with all new versions of gcc
> > without adding a specific compiler-gccX.h header. We do so by clamping
> > the __GNUC__ version to the most specific version dependent header file.
> > 
> > If someone adds a new gccX.h file __GCC_CLAMP_VERSION_HEADER also needs
> > to be modified.
> > 
> > The decision if chained including of header files (e.g. gcc5.h includes
> > gcc4.h) is necessary or should be avoided can be postponed until more
> > experience in using the official gcc release is gained.
> 
> I think the churn rate in the gcc compiler specific
> #include headers will be low enough that a single
> combined file should be acceptable.
> 
> Keeping all the gcc #defines together seems more
> readable to me.
> 
> The trivial integration I did eliminated one
> duplicate #define as well as that hack for
> #include gcc_header(__GNUC__)

It's just a proposal and I don't have a strong opinion on that. I just
want to make sure it is easy to compile current kernel with a gcc
released in two years. ;)

Bye,
Hannes