From d2916ca5c0c441284ee19cc5b9ba4d2e532768bc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Your Name Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2023 11:26:24 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] doc: update GCC baseline to 4.8 Signed-off-by: Michael Jeanson Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers Change-Id: I7ac0c195bed75b210164e9f7a3cec87cf02ef37e --- README.md | 17 +++++++++++------ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index a1a6227..6b87b63 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -68,14 +68,15 @@ Should also work on: (more testing needed before claiming support for these OS). -Linux ARM depends on running a Linux kernel 2.6.15 or better, GCC 4.4 or -better. -The C compiler used needs to support at least C99. The C++ compiler used -needs to support at least C++11. +Toolchain support +----------------- + +The C compiler used needs to support at least C99. The C++ compiler used needs +to support at least C++11. The oldest GCC version officialy supported and +tested is 4.8. -The GCC compiler versions 3.3, 3.4, 4.0, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4 and 4.5 are -supported, with the following exceptions: +Older GCC versions might still work with the following exceptions: - GCC 3.3 and 3.4 have a bug that prevents them from generating volatile accesses to offsets in a TLS structure on 32-bit x86. These versions are @@ -96,6 +97,10 @@ Clang version 3.0 (based on LLVM 3.0) is supported. Glibc >= 2.4 should work but the older version we test against is currently 2.17. + +Build system +------------ + For developers using the Git tree: This source tree is based on the autotools suite from GNU to simplify -- 2.34.1