On Sat, Aug 22, 2020 at 10:42 AM Segher Boessenkool
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi Arvind,
>
> On Fri, Aug 21, 2020 at 11:55:52PM -0400, Arvind Sankar wrote:
> > Cc Segher.
> >
> > Segher, we were looking at gcc PR82602, where IRA could reorder volatile
> > asm's (reported on ARM). The fix was backported to gcc-6.
>
> I know ;-)
>
> > Do you know if
> > there is any reason the problem couldn't occur on x86 on older gcc
> > without the fix?
>
> No, I see no particular reason, at least GCC 5 seems vulnerable. (The
> GCC 5 release branch was closed at the time this bug report was made,
> already). There is no reason I see why it would work on x86 but fail
> elsewhere, either.
>
[1] says:
Current Minimal Requirements
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Program Minimal version Command to check the version
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GNU C 4.9 gcc --version
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[1]
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/process/changes.rst#n32
