[PATCH] D156286: [docs] Bump minimum GCC version to 7.4

Mon Jul 31 13:34:14 PDT 2023

MaskRay added inline comments.

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Comment at: llvm/docs/GettingStarted.rst:345
 * Apple Clang 10.0
-* GCC 7.1
+* GCC 7.4
 * Visual Studio 2019 16.7
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PiotrZSL wrote:
> What about Glibc version ?
> I were using GCC 9.1 + glibc 2.13 + some old kernel to compile Clang 15, after upgrading to Clang 16 I had to upgrade to kernel 3.11 and glibc 2.17 due to missing (I think) aligned_alloc.
glibc support is worth its own discussion. glibc 2.13 was released in 2011. It's possible that no others has actively used this old version.

I think 2.19 has been tested and should work, but I am unclear about the support of older releases.

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