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Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2020 14:12:24 +0900
From: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Cc: Linux Kbuild mailing list <linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Emese Revfy <re.emese@...il.com>,
        Michal Marek <michal.lkml@...kovi.net>,
        Kernel Hardening <kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gcc-plugins: drop support for GCC <= 4.7

Hi Kees,

On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 1:27 PM Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 08:08:32PM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> > Nobody was opposed to raising minimum GCC version to 4.8 [1]
> > So, we will drop GCC <= 4.7 support sooner or later.
> >
> > We always use C++ compiler for building plugins for GCC >= 4.8.
> >
> > This commit drops the plugin support for GCC <= 4.7 a bit earlier,
> > which allows us to dump lots of code.
> >
> > [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/1/23/545
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>
>
> Thanks for getting this cleaned up! I look forward to the 4.8 version
> bump. :)
>
> Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>


Thanks for your Ack.
I will queue this up to kbuild tree,
and it will ease more kbuild cleanups.

Thanks.

-- 
Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada

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