Trevor Saunders <tbsau...@tbsaunde.org> writes: > On Thu, Oct 26, 2017 at 09:37:31PM +0200, Eric Botcazou wrote: >> > Can you figure what oldest GCC release supports the C++11/14 POD handling >> > that would be required? >> >> GCC needs to be buildable by other compilers than itself though. > > It sounds like people are mostly concerned about sun studio and xlc? It > doesn't seem that hard to provide precompiled binaries for those two > platforms, and maybe 4.8 binaries for people who want to compile theire > own gcc from source. If that would be enough to deal with people > concerns it seems doable by next stage 1?
Would it be worth supporting a 4-stage bootstrap, with stage 0 being built from older gcc sources? We could include a contrib/ script that downloads sources for gcc-4.7 or whatever and patches it to build with modern as well as old compilers. (When I tried gcc-4.7 last week, I needed a couple of tweaks to get it to build.) Not that I'd have time try that before GCC 9... Thanks, Richard
