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authorChristian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com>2016-12-08 14:07:29 +0100
committerChristian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com>2016-12-08 14:10:05 +0100
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Change-Id: I1944c65ddc88a9ad70f8c0eb6731552b84fbcb77 Signed-off-by: Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com>
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@@ -61,8 +61,8 @@ Compilation of the DPDK
* coreutils: ``cmp``, ``sed``, ``grep``, ``arch``, etc.
-* gcc: versions 4.5.x or later is recommended for ``i686/x86_64``. Versions 4.8.x or later is recommended
- for ``ppc_64`` and ``x86_x32`` ABI. On some distributions, some specific compiler flags and linker flags are enabled by
+* gcc: versions 4.9 or later is recommended for all platforms.
+ On some distributions, some specific compiler flags and linker flags are enabled by
default and affect performance (``-fstack-protector``, for example). Please refer to the documentation
of your distribution and to ``gcc -dumpspecs``.
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ Compilation of the DPDK
.. note::
x86_x32 ABI is currently supported with distribution packages only on Ubuntu
- higher than 13.10 or recent Debian distribution. The only supported compiler is gcc 4.8+.
+ higher than 13.10 or recent Debian distribution. The only supported compiler is gcc 4.9+.
.. note::