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The first half of the 6.6 merge window

The first half of the 6.6 merge window

Posted Sep 12, 2023 6:03 UTC (Tue) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523)
In reply to: The first half of the 6.6 merge window by pizza
Parent article: The first half of the 6.6 merge window

Some kernel features like control flow integrity checking or shadow stacks (just merged) require a much newer GCC.

Yes, Rust is even newer than that. But that's a distinction without a difference: some kernel features require very new toolchains.


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The first half of the 6.6 merge window

Posted Sep 12, 2023 6:17 UTC (Tue) by mb (subscriber, #50428) [Link]

Correct.
Some Distributions even used to ship a special gcc compiler just for compiling the kernel.
The kernel has very special requirements. That's true for C and Rust alike.
And I really don't see why that would be a problem.


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