[edk2-devel] [PATCH v2 00/17] Enable BTI support in memory attributes table

[Gerd Hoffmann]

  Hi,

> > I know you point out to use CLANG38, but the set is also tagged PATCH
> > rather than RFC.
> > I believe this option was added to GCC in version 9, meaning this is a
> > breaking change for GCC8. Now, GCC8 is ancient, but I expect it's
> > still what's available in RHEL8 for example. So it's worth mentioning.
> 
> Indeed.
> 
> So when and where to enable this (by default or not) is an open question.

No objections to requiring a newer compiler from my side.

Even with the default system compiler not changing through the whole
live cycle RHEL typically offers newer gcc versions as an option
(packaged as gcc-toolset-${version}-gcc, latest version available for
RHEL-8 is gcc-12).

take care,
  Gerd



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