On Sat, 17 Feb 2018 03:38:48 +0900 Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masah...@socionext.com> wrote:
> If the target compiler is GCC 4.8 or newer, plugins are compiled with > HOSTCXX. Otherwise, gcc-plugin.sh will select HOSTCC or HOSTCXX. > > To simpily things, let's decide GCC 4.8 is the requirement for GCC > pulgins. With this, plugins are always built with HOSTCXX. This is a > feature of advanced users, so this requirement whould not be not a big > issue. I disagree with such a decision. I think the gcc plugins should compile with older version because the kernel can be compiled with them too. The distros use these older versions as well and I can very well imagine that new plugins will extend these with backported features such as my sancov plugin. -- Emese
