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From: David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>
To: "'Valdis Klētnieks'" <valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu>,
	"Kees Cook" <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>,
	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>,
	"linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org"
	<linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH RESEND] gcc-plugins: avoid errors with -std=gnu++11 on old gcc
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2021 11:41:29 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <279b22592f1e43a48beeecd34e50b385@AcuMS.aculab.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <282490.1616047333@turing-police>

From: Valdis Kletnieks
> Sent: 18 March 2021 06:02
> 
> On Wed, 17 Mar 2021 22:52:56 -0700, Kees Cook said:
> > On Mon, Mar 08, 2021 at 03:40:21AM -0500, Valdis KlD\x13tnieks wrote:
> > > It turns out that older gcc (4.9 and 5.4) have gnu++11 support, but
> > > due to a gcc bug fixed in gcc6, throw errors during the build.
> > > The relevant gcc bug is https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=69959
> > >
> > > Version the option based on what gcc we're using.
> >
> > Is there a better way to detect this than with version checking?
> 
> Not really.  gcc 11 needs --std=gnu++11 to build it.  And although
> gcc4 and gcc5 *claim* to support it, there's a known bug, so we *can't*
> feed gnu++11 to them.  We can check versions..

That gcc bug just implies you need a space after "xxx".
That is easily fixable in the sources.
Is there another problem?

(Apart from the standards committee breaking everything again.)

	David

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-03-18 11:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-03-08  8:40 [PATCH RESEND] gcc-plugins: avoid errors with -std=gnu++11 on old gcc Valdis Klētnieks
2021-03-18  5:52 ` Kees Cook
2021-03-18  6:02   ` Valdis Klētnieks
2021-03-18  6:26     ` Miguel Ojeda
2021-03-18  9:07       ` Masahiro Yamada
2021-03-18 11:47         ` Valdis Klētnieks
2021-03-18 11:41     ` David Laight [this message]
2021-03-18 11:55       ` Valdis Klētnieks
2021-03-18 13:38         ` David Laight

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