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So it's currently GCC 4.6+, with patches queued to bump that to 4.8+. Also, you can use Clang. So I'm not sure how rustc being used for some parts of the kern
by ndesaulniers 6y ago
So it's currently GCC 4.6+, with patches queued to bump that to 4.8+. Also, you can use Clang. So I'm not sure how rustc being used for some parts of the kernel has anything to do with developers "restriction?"
- ndesaulniers 6y agoVia LWN, looks like the GCC 4.8+ patches got merged into the kernel's 5.8 merge window recently, with a footnote suggesting this be bumped to GCC 4.9+. https://lwn.net/Articles/822527/ https://lwn.net/Articles/822527/ https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=4152d146ee21 https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...