Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2016 16:00:17 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
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        Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] kbuild: add -fno-PIE
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On Thu, 27 Oct 2016 09:28:24 +0200 Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> wrote:

> > Building with gcc 3.3 is apparently still possible, although it produces
> > tons of warnings and a modpost section mismatch.  Still, requiring gcc
> > 4.1 or newer would not be unreasonable, I think (still released a few
> > months earlier than binutils 2.17).
> 
> I remember you had once a server box running some enterprise distro
> which had an old gcc. Do you see any reason for not lifting the minimum
> gcc version to v4.1 ?

Seems OK to me.  I do have a gcc-3.4.5 for mips, sh and sparc64 sitting
around but I basically never use them and should update.