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Re: Mention of gcc 4.5 as first version with plugin support
On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 9:46 PM, Basile Starynkevitch
<basile@starynkevitch.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Jan 2013 09:58:49 +0100
> Dodji Seketeli <dodji@seketeli.org> wrote:
>
>> Thank you Dave for this documentation patch that looks OK to my casual
>> eyes. Let's CC the documentation maintainers.
>>
>> Dave Johansen <davejohansen@gmail.com> a écrit:
>>
>> >
>> > +GCC plugin support is available in GCC version 4.5.0 and
>> > +later.
>
> Maybe we should say that a later version is preferable.....
> IIRC 4.5 plugin support was not very good -it was more an experimental stage than
> anything else. I believe that we should not encourage people to write plugins against
> 4.5.....
What's the value of documenting the availability of an unstable API in
older versions
of GCC? Mind this documentation is version specific.
Richard.
> Cheers.
>
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