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Merge branch 'gcc-min-version-5.1' (make gcc-5.1 the minimum version)
Merge patch series from Nick Desaulniers to update the minimum gcc version to 5.1. This is some of the left-overs from the merge window that I didn't want to deal with yesterday, so it comes in after -rc1 but was sent before. Gcc-4.9 support has been an annoyance for some time, and with -Werror I had the choice of applying a fairly big patch from Kees Cook to remove a fair number of initializer warnings (still leaving some), or this patch series from Nick that just removes the source of the problem. The initializer cleanups might still be worth it regardless, but honestly, I preferred just tackling the problem with gcc-4.9 head-on. We've been more aggressiuve about no longer having to care about compilers that were released a long time ago, and I think it's been a good thing. I added a couple of patches on top to sort out a few left-overs now that we no longer support gcc-4.x. As noted by Arnd, as a result of this minimum compiler version upgrade we can probably change our use of '--std=gnu89' to '--std=gnu11', and finally start using local loop declarations etc. But this series does _not_ yet do that. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20210909182525.372ee687@canb.auug.org.au/ Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAK7LNASs6dvU6D3jL2GG3jW58fXfaj6VNOe55NJnTB8UPuk2pA@mail.gmail.com/ Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1438 * emailed patches from Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>: Drop some straggling mentions of gcc-4.9 as being stale compiler_attributes.h: drop __has_attribute() support for gcc4 vmlinux.lds.h: remove old check for GCC 4.9 compiler-gcc.h: drop checks for older GCC versions Makefile: drop GCC < 5 -fno-var-tracking-assignments workaround arm64: remove GCC version check for ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128 powerpc: remove GCC version check for UPD_CONSTR riscv: remove Kconfig check for GCC version for ARCH_RV64I Kconfig.debug: drop GCC 5+ version check for DWARF5 mm/ksm: remove old GCC 4.9+ check compiler.h: drop fallback overflow checkers Documentation: raise minimum supported version of GCC to 5.1