Minimum compiler requriements

[Andrew Haley]

NightStrike writes:
 > Currently, to build gcc requires using the system compiler to build
 > part of gcc, then gcc compiles the rest of itself with itself.  If the
 > system compiler is also gcc, what is the minimum version that can be
 > used?
 
gcc requires an ISO C compiler, so any compliant version of gcc will
do.  We don't routinely test building it with old compilers.

Andrew.

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