Glenn Washburn <developm...@efficientek.com> writes: > GCC 5.1.0 looks like it came out on April 22, 2015[1] and 5.2 was used > in Ubuntu Xenial from 2016 (which is no longer supported). At what > point do we bump up the minimum supported version? And doing so > wouldn't mean that GRUB can't be compiled with eariler versions of > GCC, it just means we don't test that. I also think it would be > acceptable to accept patches that fix issues with compiling on GCC > versions less than the stated minimum supported version (with in > reason and subject to discretion). > > One idea is to update the minimum supported version every release cycle > to the lowest GCC version that is about 5 years old (that's artitrary > but seems reasonable). > > I'm interested in this because it seems to imply that for the testing > system it should do two compilations for every target, one for the > munimum supported GCC and one for a somewhat recent version.
I support raising the minimum compiler version. Looking at https://www.gnu.org/software/gcc/releases.html , a five-year proposal would raise to gcc-7. Be well, --Robbie
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