Re: Build regressions/improvements in v4.18-rc3

From: Helge Deller
Date: Tue Jul 03 2018 - 02:19:33 EST


On 03.07.2018 03:09, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> Helge Deller <deller@xxxxxx> writes:
>
>> On 02.07.2018 16:09, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>>> On Mon, Jul 2, 2018 at 4:01 PM Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> JFYI, when comparing v4.18-rc3[1] to v4.18-rc2[3], the summaries are:
>>> ...
>>
>> Both of the following are simply happening because of old compiler which is being used:
>>
>>>> [Deleted 26903 lines about "warning: ... [-Wpointer-sign]" on parisc-allmodconfig]
>
> It's GCC 4.6.3. Are you saying that's not supported anymore?
>
> I can update to 8.1.0 if that's more useful.

Yes, please.
Any version >= 7.2.1 should be better.

Helge