On 2018-12-12 16:22, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > From: Thomas Huth <[email protected]> > > The questions about our minimum compiler requirement pops up every > couple of months, and we then have to recall the details each time. > So let's document this in a proper way, by adding a comment and > check for the right compiler version to our compiler.h header. > > Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <[email protected]> > Message-Id: <[email protected]> > Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <[email protected]> > --- > include/qemu/compiler.h | 8 ++++++++ > 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/include/qemu/compiler.h b/include/qemu/compiler.h > index 6b92710..6f32ec2 100644 > --- a/include/qemu/compiler.h > +++ b/include/qemu/compiler.h > @@ -22,6 +22,14 @@ > # define QEMU_GNUC_PREREQ(maj, min) 0 > #endif > > +/* > + * We need at least GCC 4.1 for atomics support. Clang also supports these, > + * and reports itself as GCC 4.2, so it passes this check, too. > + */ > +#if !QEMU_GNUC_PREREQ(4, 1) > +#error QEMU needs a compiler that is compatible with GCC v4.1 or newer > +#endif
You can drop this patch, it has been obsoleted by the configure check. Thomas
