Re: [PATCH] Documentation/llvm: add documentation on building w/ Clang/LLVM

From: Nick Desaulniers
Date: Wed Feb 26 2020 - 18:19:04 EST


On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 2:21 PM Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2020-02-25 at 13:56 -0800, Kees Cook wrote:
> > I think we should take a specific version stand as the
> > "minimum" version. Being able to build x86 defconfig is a good minimum
> > IMO.
>
> Agree.
>
> It's odd to say that clang 4 is fine for arm when it's
> not fine for x86. It's also reasonable to expect arm
> users to upgrade their compiler to a more recent version
> when the only cost is a very small bit of time.

That's a very x86 centric point of view.
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Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers