On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 4:14 AM, Richard Biener <rguent...@suse.de> wrote: > > This brings the build-requirements up-to-date with us now requiring > a C++ host compiler. I optimistically increased the minimum required > GCC version listed from 2.95 to 3.4 as that is the earliest version > that could reasonably be called a C++98 compatible compiler (yeah, > lawrence will now argue that we want to require C++04 or how it was > called).
For a long period of time, we (in the GCC/g++ front-end land) did not make much distinction between C++98 and C++03 because the latter is just a bug fix of the former. I am not sure we are using any construct for which the distinction would matter in practice or whether there is any real C++ compiler used to bootstrap GCC for which the fine distinctions matter. -- Gaby
