Re: Recommended compiler version

[George Georgalis <george@galis.org>]

On Sat, May 29, 2004 at 03:57:55PM +0100, John Bradford wrote:
>Quote from Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>:
>> Whether support for gcc 2.95 should be dropped is a discussion for 2.7.
>
>Is there any single 3.x.x version of GCC that's actively in use by a large
>number of core developers?  How do we make a sensible recommendation if not?

I've used gcc-3.3.2, since about when it came out. It's been reliable
for me so I haven't noticed/tried newer versions. A few times I had
problems, with xfree or mplayer and reverted to my distro version:
gcc version 2.95.4 20011002 (Debian prerelease)

if a standard, by someone more experienced with c than myself, where
used that indicated preferred, known.works, known.broken versions of
gcc, then developers could maintain the information, for their code,
in a way that would make it easy to make global assertions on what gcc
version is preferred, works or broken. Plus, make errors that say "this
doesn't work with that gcc version" could save a lot of headaches.

// George


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