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From:   Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 11 Aug 2021 12:41:23 +0200
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Makefile: remove stale cc-option checks
To:     Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
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On Tue, Aug 10, 2021 at 10:42 PM Nick Desaulniers
<ndesaulniers@google.com> wrote:
>
> cc-option, cc-option-yn, and cc-disable-warning all invoke the compiler
> during build time, and can slow down the build when these checks become
> stale for our supported compilers, whose minimally supported versions
> increases over time. See Documentation/process/changes.rst for the
> current supported minimal versions (GCC 4.9+, clang 10.0.1+). Compiler
> version support for these flags may be verified on godbolt.org.

Always nice to see cleanups due to raised versions!

Shouldn't `--allow-store-data-races` have been on its own patch, though?

Acked-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>

Cheers,
Miguel