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From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date:   Wed, 8 Jul 2020 11:00:19 -0700
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Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] EFI fixes
To:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
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        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
        Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>,
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On Wed, Jul 8, 2020 at 9:21 AM Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:
> >
> > It's perhaps yet another reason to just skip gcc-4.8 too, since
> > apparently 4.9 works.
> >
> > gcc-4.9 really has a lot of advantages. It's where (I think) gcc
> > basically supports all C11 things, including _Generic() but also
> > __auto_type.
>
> +1
>
> Anybody for nay, or should we just do this?

I'll just do it. Let's see if anybody screams with a good reason. I
hate the whole "support old compilers", it ends up not only making for
complex code, it tends to cause these unnecessary kinds of "guys, we
tested this really well, but that crazy compiler had a very particular
odd issue, and it wasn't in any test box.

                Linus