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Re: [PATCH v2 4/6] powerpc64le: Require at least GCC 6.2 for powerpc64le


On Thu, 22 Jun 2017, Steven Munroe wrote:

> On Wed, 2017-06-21 at 23:27 +0000, Joseph Myers wrote:
> > I see no problem with this, but as far as I'm concerned it's for powerpc 
> > maintainers to review.
> > 
> I am Ok with this as it is specific to powerpc64le and will not impact
> the other PPC platforms.
> 
> But I would prefer a compile test for __float128 and the require 'q'
> suffix builtins over s GCC version test. This would allow for clang/llvm
> compiles (once they complete their float128 support).

The proposed test is for 6.2.  I presume that's because of some fix that 
wasn't in 6.1 - is it straightforward to make the feature test cover 
whatever's missing and so reject attempts to build with 6.1?

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com


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