I commented on the CL if we decide to check it in. I'm not 100% sure what's best, but the more I think about it the more I tend to agree with Jason. That would probably be the least invasive thing to do, given its temporary nature. It would be a bit awkward and clunky for anybody that hits it, but hopefully that set is very small or empty.
Gabe On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 8:52 AM Jason Lowe-Power <ja...@lowepower.com> wrote: > I advocate for explicitly stating that SystemC should be disabled for gcc < > 5.0 and making this change in the SConscript with a warning. I don't think > the SystemC support is widely used right now, and few people are stuck on > 4.8, so I doubt it will affect anyone. We can even include a link to the > gerrit patch that fixes it in the SCons warning. > > Jason > > On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 5:19 AM Giacomo Travaglini < > giacomo.travagl...@arm.com> wrote: > > > Hi Chang, > > > > > > I think it makes sense to wait until EOL of Ubuntu 14.04. > > > > We should consider about fixing the bug then, or to explicitly say in > > gem5.org that SYSTEMC has to be disabled in order > > > > to be compliant (which is not the best approach IMO). > > > > > > Gabe, what's your opinion on this? Can you provide a better alternative > to > > my patch? > > > > Otherwise, If nobody wants to spend time on this I feel we should go on > > merging the patch with a remainder of reverting it > > > > once we deprecate usage of GCC4.8/9 > > > > > > Giacomo > > > > ________________________________ > > From: gem5-dev <gem5-dev-boun...@gem5.org> on behalf of Chang Hyun Park > < > > heartinpi...@gmail.com> > > Sent: 27 November 2018 02:11:34 > > To: gem5 Developer List > > Subject: Re: [gem5-dev] GCC4.X support > > > > Dear Jason and Giacomo, > > > > We are running our simulation clusters on Ubuntu 14.04 (LTS) which will > > expire next April. > > Ubuntu 14.04 ships with GCC 4.8. > > > > If its not too much hassle supporting 4.8, what about dropping support > for > > gcc < 5.0 after the EOL of Ubuntu 14.04? > > (So perhaps drop support for gcc < 5.0 beginning May 2019) > > > > Best Regards, > > Chang Hyun Park > > > > > On 27 Nov 2018, at 3:53 AM, Jason Lowe-Power <ja...@lowepower.com> > > wrote: > > > > > > Dropping 4.8/4.9 works for me. Maybe we should also email gem5-users to > > see > > > if anyone is using old clusters. > > > > > > Jason > > > > > > On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 9:34 AM Giacomo Travaglini < > > > giacomo.travagl...@arm.com> wrote: > > > > > >> Hi all, > > >> > > >> > > >> There is an ongoing discussion about dropping support for gcc < 5.0. > > >> (At the moment we support gcc/4.8: http://www.gem5.org/Dependencies< > > >> http://www.gem5.org/Dependencies)>) > > >> > > >> It sparked from the following patch > > >> > > >> https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/14315 > > >> > > >> which is keeping gem5 gcc4.x compliant. If we decide to drop support, > I > > >> will abandon the patch. > > >> (ideally when http://www.gem5.org/Dependencies gets updated) > > >> > > >> Does anybody have any concern about that? > > >> > > >> Thanks > > >> > > >> Giacomo > > >> > > >> > > >> IMPORTANT NOTICE: The contents of this email and any attachments are > > >> confidential and may also be privileged. If you are not the intended > > >> recipient, please notify the sender immediately and do not disclose > the > > >> contents to any other person, use it for any purpose, or store or copy > > the > > >> information in any medium. Thank you. > > >> _______________________________________________ > > >> gem5-dev mailing list > > >> gem5-dev@gem5.org > > >> http://m5sim.org/mailman/listinfo/gem5-dev > > > _______________________________________________ > > > gem5-dev mailing list > > > gem5-dev@gem5.org > > > http://m5sim.org/mailman/listinfo/gem5-dev > > > > _______________________________________________ > > gem5-dev mailing list > > gem5-dev@gem5.org > > http://m5sim.org/mailman/listinfo/gem5-dev > > IMPORTANT NOTICE: The contents of this email and any attachments are > > confidential and may also be privileged. If you are not the intended > > recipient, please notify the sender immediately and do not disclose the > > contents to any other person, use it for any purpose, or store or copy > the > > information in any medium. Thank you. > > _______________________________________________ > > gem5-dev mailing list > > gem5-dev@gem5.org > > http://m5sim.org/mailman/listinfo/gem5-dev > _______________________________________________ > gem5-dev mailing list > gem5-dev@gem5.org > http://m5sim.org/mailman/listinfo/gem5-dev _______________________________________________ gem5-dev mailing list gem5-dev@gem5.org http://m5sim.org/mailman/listinfo/gem5-dev
