[PATCH 2/5] x86, gcc: Disallow building Linux/x86 with gcc 3.x/4.0

[H. Peter Anvin]

We are starting to get "straggler problems" with people compiling
current Linux kernels with now-ancient versions of gcc.  All the
development is being done against gcc 4.x; this simply disallows gcc
4.0 or earlier.

We disallow 4.0 as well as 3.x because 4.0 had a fair share of bugs
especially around asm() statements; this allows us to remove those
workarounds.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/Makefile   |    3 ++-
 arch/x86/kernel/compiler.c |    5 +++++
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 arch/x86/kernel/compiler.c

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/Makefile b/arch/x86/kernel/Makefile
index 0925676..a6459b7 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/Makefile
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/Makefile
@@ -29,7 +29,8 @@ GCOV_PROFILE_hpet.o		:= n
 GCOV_PROFILE_tsc.o		:= n
 GCOV_PROFILE_paravirt.o		:= n
 
-obj-y			:= process_$(BITS).o signal.o entry_$(BITS).o
+obj-y			:= compiler.o
+obj-y			+= process_$(BITS).o signal.o entry_$(BITS).o
 obj-y			+= traps.o irq.o irq_$(BITS).o dumpstack_$(BITS).o
 obj-y			+= time.o ioport.o ldt.o dumpstack.o
 obj-y			+= setup.o x86_init.o i8259.o irqinit.o
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/compiler.c b/arch/x86/kernel/compiler.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8914974
--- /dev/null
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/compiler.c
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+#if __GNUC__ < 4
+#error "Compiling Linux/x86 with gcc 3.x is no longer supported"
+#elif __GNUC__ == 4 && __GNUC_MINOR__ < 1
+#error "Compiling Linux/x86 with gcc 4.0 is not supported"
+#endif
-- 
1.7.2.1

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