On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 11:11 AM, Tristan Gingold <ging...@adacore.com> wrote: > Is it ok to require gcc 4.9 (3 years old) or later to build GNAT ? > > We plan to use gcc exceptions within the GNAT front-end (previously we were > using a FE specific exception mechanism). > This requires a matching implementation in the runtime, which was last > changed for gcc 4.9 > Our idea is to completely remove in GNAT the support of the FE specific > exception mechanism. > > Is anyone opposed to such a change ?
But as you are bootstrapping you should always have a matching runtime, no? That is, the built gnat1 will not use the host compilers runtime? Richard. > Tristan. >
