Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary)
Arnd claimed that some architectures needed even newer-than-4.3, but I
assume that's limited to things like RISC-V that simply don't have old
gcc support at all.
gcc support at all.
That was from a discussion about bug report that only happened with gcc-4.4, and was because gcc-4.4 did insane things, so we were talking about how it wasn't necessarily worth supporting.
about how it wasn't necessarily worth supporting.
So we really have had a lot of unrelated reasons why just saying "gcc-4.5 or newer" would be a good thing.
gcc support at all.
That was from a discussion about bug report that only happened with gcc-4.4, and was because gcc-4.4 did insane things, so we were talking about how it wasn't necessarily worth supporting.
about how it wasn't necessarily worth supporting.
So we really have had a lot of unrelated reasons why just saying "gcc-4.5 or newer" would be a good thing.