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From:   Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com>
Date:   Mon, 10 Jun 2019 16:42:27 +0200
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Subject: Re: Linux 4.19 and GCC 9
To:     Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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On Mon, Jun 10, 2019 at 4:21 PM Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>
> > I also checked that 4.19.49 compiles fine with GCC 9, although with a
> > lot of warnings, mostly from objtool, like "warning: objtool:
> > sock_register()+0xd: sibling call from callable instruction with
> > modified stack frame". But it's a start.

I think Josh Poimboeuf added support for a few related things in GCC 8
(e.g. 13810435b9a7 ("objtool: Support GCC 8's cold subfunctions")).

> I'll look into these after the next round of kernels are released.  I
> guess I'll go find a distro that has gcc9 on it to actually test
> things...

I typically compile a bare-bones GCC for those things, it is quite quick.

Cheers,
Miguel