[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] [RFC PATCH 02/28] Documentation: Bump minimum GCC version to 8.1
From: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@xxxxxxxxxx> Bump the minimum GCC version to 8.1 to gain unconditional support for referring to the per-task stack cookie using a symbol rather than relying on the fixed offset of 40 bytes from %GS, which requires elaborate hacks to support. Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@xxxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst | 2 +- Documentation/process/changes.rst | 2 +- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst index f2bebff6a733..3dda41923ed6 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst @@ -259,7 +259,7 @@ Configuring the kernel Compiling the kernel -------------------- - - Make sure you have at least gcc 5.1 available. + - Make sure you have at least gcc 8.1 available. For more information, refer to :ref:`Documentation/process/changes.rst <changes>`. - Do a ``make`` to create a compressed kernel image. It is also possible to do diff --git a/Documentation/process/changes.rst b/Documentation/process/changes.rst index 00f1ed7c59c3..59b7d3d8a577 100644 --- a/Documentation/process/changes.rst +++ b/Documentation/process/changes.rst @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ you probably needn't concern yourself with pcmciautils. ====================== =============== ======================================== Program Minimal version Command to check the version ====================== =============== ======================================== -GNU C 5.1 gcc --version +GNU C 8.1 gcc --version Clang/LLVM (optional) 13.0.1 clang --version Rust (optional) 1.78.0 rustc --version bindgen (optional) 0.65.1 bindgen --version -- 2.46.0.792.g87dc391469-goog
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