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Re: GCC selftest improvements
On 10/28/19 2:27 PM, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 01:40:03PM -0600, Jeff Law wrote:
>> On 10/25/19 6:01 PM, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
>>> Jason, Jonathan - is the situation on the terrain really that dire that C++11 (or C++14) isn't at all available for platforms that GCC is bootstrapped from?
>> The argument that I'd make is that's relatively uncommon (I know, I know
>> AIX) that bootstrapping in those environments may well require first
>> building something like gcc-9.
>>
>> I'd really like to see us move to C++11 or beyond. Sadly, I don't think
>> we have any good mechanism for making this kind of technical decision
>> when there isn't consensus.
>
> Which GCC version will be required to work as bootstrap compiler? Will
> 4.8.5 be enough?
I'd say gcc-9. What would we gain by making it 4.8 or anything else
that old?
jeff