Re: [PATCH] Documentation: add minimum clang/llvm version

2020-08-26 Thread Nick Desaulniers
On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 8:53 AM Sedat Dilek wrote: > > Thanks for the text - a first good step. > > Do you plan checks in the source-code - in the future (see [1] where I > played a bit)? Oh, I forgot! Good idea, will add a check to compiler-clang.h. > Arch-specific supported LLVM toolchain vers

Re: [PATCH] Documentation: add minimum clang/llvm version

2020-08-26 Thread Sedat Dilek
On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 12:26 AM 'Nick Desaulniers' via Clang Built Linux wrote: > > Based on a vote at the LLVM BoF at Plumbers 2020, we decided to start > small, supporting just one formal upstream release of LLVM for now. > > We can probably widen the support window of supported versions over >

Re: [PATCH] Documentation: add minimum clang/llvm version

2020-08-26 Thread Kees Cook
On Tue, Aug 25, 2020 at 03:25:51PM -0700, Nick Desaulniers wrote: > Based on a vote at the LLVM BoF at Plumbers 2020, we decided to start > small, supporting just one formal upstream release of LLVM for now. > > We can probably widen the support window of supported versions over > time. Also, not

Re: [PATCH] Documentation: add minimum clang/llvm version

2020-08-26 Thread Will Deacon
On Tue, Aug 25, 2020 at 03:25:51PM -0700, Nick Desaulniers wrote: > Based on a vote at the LLVM BoF at Plumbers 2020, we decided to start > small, supporting just one formal upstream release of LLVM for now. > > We can probably widen the support window of supported versions over > time. Also, not

Re: [PATCH] Documentation: add minimum clang/llvm version

2020-08-25 Thread Gustavo A. R. Silva
On 8/25/20 17:51, Nathan Chancellor wrote: > On Tue, Aug 25, 2020 at 03:25:51PM -0700, Nick Desaulniers wrote: >> Based on a vote at the LLVM BoF at Plumbers 2020, we decided to start >> small, supporting just one formal upstream release of LLVM for now. >> >> We can probably widen the support w

Re: [PATCH] Documentation: add minimum clang/llvm version

2020-08-25 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Tue, 25 Aug 2020 15:51:31 -0700 Nathan Chancellor wrote: > > +Clang/LLVM (optional) 10.0.1 clang --version > > Maybe it is worth making the "(optional)" a footnote like Sphinx? Seems > to just kind of stick out to me but I do not have a strong opinion > unless others do. Let's n

Re: [PATCH] Documentation: add minimum clang/llvm version

2020-08-25 Thread Nathan Chancellor
On Tue, Aug 25, 2020 at 03:25:51PM -0700, Nick Desaulniers wrote: > Based on a vote at the LLVM BoF at Plumbers 2020, we decided to start > small, supporting just one formal upstream release of LLVM for now. > > We can probably widen the support window of supported versions over > time. Also, not

[PATCH] Documentation: add minimum clang/llvm version

2020-08-25 Thread Nick Desaulniers
Based on a vote at the LLVM BoF at Plumbers 2020, we decided to start small, supporting just one formal upstream release of LLVM for now. We can probably widen the support window of supported versions over time. Also, note that LLVM's release process is different than GCC's. GCC tends to have 1 m