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Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2016 22:32:17 +0100
From: Emese Revfy <re.emese@...il.com>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Cc: linux-kbuild <linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org>, PaX Team
 <pageexec@...email.hu>, Brad Spengler <spender@...ecurity.net>,
 "kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com"
 <kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com>, Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.com>,
 Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] Add Cyclomatic complexity GCC plugin

On Wed, 17 Feb 2016 16:27:22 -0800
Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org> wrote:

> It's a shame there's been so much churn with gcc's plugin API. I
> wonder if it might make sense to choose 5.0 as the supported compiler
> version for this feature, just to cut down on all the ifdef noise. For
> now, let's keep it as-is, though.

I think it is important to support all gcc versions as there are a lot of distros that
use older gcc versions than 5.

I made a pass structure generator, you can see it on my github:
https://github.com/ephox-gcc-plugins/gcc-plugins_linux-next/commits/plugins

I didn't resend the patches yet because I usually wait until there are no more comments
for the previous series.

--
Emese

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