On Tue,  6 Dec 2016 17:28:00 +1100
Andrew Donnellan [off-list ref] wrote:

+      # Various gccs between 4.5 and 5.1 have bugs on powerpc due to missing
+      # header files. gcc <= 4.6 doesn't work at all, gccs from 4.8 to 5.1 have
+      # issues with 64-bit targets.
+      ifeq ($(ARCH),powerpc)
+        ifeq ($(call cc-ifversion, -le, 0501, y), y)
+	  @echo "Cannot use CONFIG_GCC_PLUGINS: plugin support on gcc <= 5.1 is buggy on powerpc, please upgrade to gcc 5.2 or newer" >&2 && exit 1
+        endif
+      endif

Hi,

What are these missing headers? Because if they aren't necessary then they can
be removed from gcc-common.h. There were missing headers on arm/arm64 and these
archs are supported. I think this version check is unnecessary because
gcc-plugin.sh also checks the missing headers.

What is the problem on gcc-4.5/gcc-4.6?

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Emese