On 30 April 2012 16:23, Volker Braun <vbraun.n...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Essentially by maintaining a list of gcc versions / architectures that work
> well enough with reduced optimizations, and that are hopelessly broken. This
> can just be some shell script that shitlists specific compilers...

A problem with that approach is that a compiler can be broken on one
platform, or verions of linux, but ok on another. A better approach is
probaby the one taken by autoconf - test the compiler. If you know a
compiler computes 1+1=3, then write a test for that. Autoconf is good
for this.

Dave

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