Re: C++ conversion: an observation about minimum compiler version

2013-03-06 Thread Thierry Moreau
This is now bugzilla 56558. Thierry Moreau wrote: Hi, The C++ template code in annex triggers a compile-time error on 4.2, 4.4, 4.6, but not on 4.7. (I suppose this bug has been found and tracked before.) === template class t1 { public: int length;

Re: C++ conversion: an observation about minimum compiler version

2013-03-04 Thread Jonathan Wakely
On 4 March 2013 19:59, Thierry Moreau wrote: > > The observation is *if* the gcc source code has some C++ depency(ies) which > similarly needs say version>=4.7 and a machine has only gcc 4.4 installed, > then migrating to e.g. gcc 5.3 requires installing v.X, (4.7 <= X < > first-version-that-can't-

C++ conversion: an observation about minimum compiler version

2013-03-04 Thread Thierry Moreau
Hi, This is just an observation, but maybe there is a potential problem. I am a happy user of GCC and I have many 4.x versions that I use on three development Linux boxes. The C++ template code in annex triggers a compile-time error on 4.2, 4.4, 4.6, but not on 4.7. (I suppose this bug has be