Re: 3.15.2 build error on AMD64

[Nick Warne <nick@linicks.net>]

On 30/06/14 14:26, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 11:24:23PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
>> Btw, I thought you had that gcc 4.2.x from some distro or so. Because
>> if it is in some ancient distro, one could install it in kvm and test
>> and play with it.
>
> Ok, I did dig out an ancient debian I had lying around here with gcc
> 4.1.2. The patch I pointed you at does really fix the issue. So all is
> fine and solved now. :-)

Ummm, interesting.

But is it solved?

Suppose developer a.n.other submits a patch that works with his/her GCC 
version but doesn't with some other GCC version.  I guess this will be 
picked up in GIT build tests, but that only then tells everybody to 
upgrade GCC or find a patch that fixes the issue (like you did, but I 
couldn't find it).

Is there a document or something that stipulates what is the minimum 
version[s] of GCC to build a particular version of the kernel?  If not, 
perhaps this is something that needs addressing.

Nick
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