Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) With modern distros being at
7.3, and people testing pre-releases of gcc-8, something like gcc-4.5
is still pretty darn ancient.
is still pretty darn ancient.
But it would be good to be able to rely on asm goto rather than have completely different logic for "have to do it by hand". And I do wonder how many of our "let's test if gcc supports this option" are completely out-dated.
completely out-dated.
And in <linux/compiler-gcc.h> The only way to fix it is to break it.
What I would worry about primarily is not one of the odd developers who can upgrade, but random people in the wild.
is still pretty darn ancient.
But it would be good to be able to rely on asm goto rather than have completely different logic for "have to do it by hand". And I do wonder how many of our "let's test if gcc supports this option" are completely out-dated.
completely out-dated.
And in <linux/compiler-gcc.h> The only way to fix it is to break it.
What I would worry about primarily is not one of the odd developers who can upgrade, but random people in the wild.