Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754120AbaAaKXQ (ORCPT ); Fri, 31 Jan 2014 05:23:16 -0500 Received: from atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz ([195.113.26.193]:55901 "EHLO atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751411AbaAaKXO (ORCPT ); Fri, 31 Jan 2014 05:23:14 -0500 Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 11:23:12 +0100 From: Pavel Machek To: David Woodhouse Cc: x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, llvmlinux@lists.linuxfoundation.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: Build 16-bit code with -m16 where possible Message-ID: <20140131102312.GA1534@amd.pavel.ucw.cz> References: <1389180083-23249-1-git-send-email-David.Woodhouse@intel.com> <1389180083-23249-3-git-send-email-David.Woodhouse@intel.com> <1390997485.20153.129.camel@i7.infradead.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1390997485.20153.129.camel@i7.infradead.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed 2014-01-29 12:11:25, David Woodhouse wrote: > Both clang 3.5 and GCC 4.9 will support this (as of r207196 and r199754 > respectively). Both have been tested to produce booting kernels when the > 16-bit code is built with -m16. (Modulo LLVM PR3997, at least.) Will this break compilation with older GCC versions? Current minimum gcc is 3.2. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/