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To: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>,Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
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On November 29, 2018 1:25:02 PM GMT+01:00, Segher Boessenkool <segher@kerne=
l.crashing.org> wrote:
>This will only be fixed from GCC 9 on, if the compiler adopts it.  The
>kernel wants to support ancient GCC, so it will need to have a
>workaround
>for older GCC versions anyway.

What about backporting it, like Richard says?


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