From: linus...@gmail.com [mailto:linus...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Linus Torvalds > Sent: 18 March 2018 23:36 ... > > Yeah, and since we're in the situation that *new* gcc versions work > for us anyway, and we only have issues with older gcc's (that sadly > people still use), even if there was a new cool feature we couldn't > use it.
Is it necessary to have the full checks for old versions of gcc? Even -Wvla could be predicated on very recent gcc - since we aren't worried about whether gcc decides to generate a vla, but whether the source requests one. David