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[RFC,02/28] Documentation: Bump minimum GCC version to 8.1

Message ID 20240925150059.3955569-32-ardb+git@google.com
State New
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Series x86: Rely on toolchain for relocatable code | expand

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Ard Biesheuvel Sept. 25, 2024, 3:01 p.m. UTC 
From: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>

Bump the minimum GCC version to 8.1 to gain unconditional support for
referring to the per-task stack cookie using a symbol rather than
relying on the fixed offset of 40 bytes from %GS, which requires
elaborate hacks to support.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
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 Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst | 2 +-
 Documentation/process/changes.rst    | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst
index f2bebff6a733..3dda41923ed6 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst
@@ -259,7 +259,7 @@  Configuring the kernel
 Compiling the kernel
 --------------------
 
- - Make sure you have at least gcc 5.1 available.
+ - Make sure you have at least gcc 8.1 available.
    For more information, refer to :ref:`Documentation/process/changes.rst <changes>`.
 
  - Do a ``make`` to create a compressed kernel image. It is also possible to do
diff --git a/Documentation/process/changes.rst b/Documentation/process/changes.rst
index 00f1ed7c59c3..59b7d3d8a577 100644
--- a/Documentation/process/changes.rst
+++ b/Documentation/process/changes.rst
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@  you probably needn't concern yourself with pcmciautils.
 ====================== ===============  ========================================
         Program        Minimal version       Command to check the version
 ====================== ===============  ========================================
-GNU C                  5.1              gcc --version
+GNU C                  8.1              gcc --version
 Clang/LLVM (optional)  13.0.1           clang --version
 Rust (optional)        1.78.0           rustc --version
 bindgen (optional)     0.65.1           bindgen --version