> I think the right approach is not documenting observations like that, but > investigating the causes of failures with older compilers and making it > build with as wide a range of versions of GCC (and ideally at least one > non-GCC C++ compiler, probably an EDG-based one such as the Intel > compiler) as is reasonable.
Yes, I don't think we should require GCC to build GCC, this would be a step backwards in my opinion. I can experiment with the Sun Studio compiler. -- Eric Botcazou
