On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 8:13 PM, David Edelsohn <dje....@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 1:37 PM, Diego Novillo <dnovi...@google.com> wrote: >> >> We would like to start the process to make GCC 4.8 build in C++ mode by >> default. >> >> The mechanics of the change are simple enough. I volunteer to test changing >> the default on all primary targets (assuming I can get them from the GCC >> build farm). > > I appreciate the motivation, but this may cause major problems on > non-GNU/Linux platforms. Testing on all primary targets is not > enough. > > Do you expect GCC to be able to bootstrap starting from a vendor C++ > compiler or will this require G++?
I would expect that we use C++03, and any C++ compiler. > What is the earliest release of G++ that will allow GCC to bootstrap? Any G++ from the last five years should be good. -- Gaby