GCC selftest improvements

[Segher Boessenkool]

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?


Segher