[ipxe-devel] Upcoming gcc 9 has issues with ipxe source

[Michael Brown]

On 24/01/2019 15:35, Bruce Rogers wrote:
> I'll see what I can do to dig into this further, and get a better handle on
> all the changes that would or could be made to build ipxe without
> having to disable this warning.
> 
> One thing I'm not clear on is what compilers ipxe is designed to be
> compatible with. Is there a "list"?

It should definitely work with gcc, and with any version of gcc that's 
likely to be found on currently deployed systems.

It should also work with anything that's sufficiently compatible with 
gcc to be able to build the Linux kernel.

There is some aborted support for icc compatibility dating back to the 
time that it seemed potentially worthwhile to target EBC rather than 
native UEFI executables.  You can ignore that; I'm not worried about 
breaking support for a proprietary compiler that's needed only for an 
unfinished platform.

Michael