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From: Mart Raudsepp <leio@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: stable gcc 5.4.0 ??
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2017 22:52:01
Message-Id: 1492728706.1718.1.camel@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: stable gcc 5.4.0 ?? by Walter Dnes
1 Ühel kenal päeval, N, 20.04.2017 kell 18:17, kirjutas Walter Dnes:
2 > On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 07:36:03AM +0200, Tomas Mozes wrote
3 > >
4 > > The default is new:
5 > > https://www.gentoo.org/support/news-items/2015-10-22-gcc-5-new-c++1
6 > > 1-abi.html
7 >
8 >   And the news item says...
9 >
10 > > Display-If-Installed: >=sys-devel/gcc-5
11 >
12 > ...which means that people like me, who currently have 4.9.4, won't
13 > know
14 > about it until after the fact.  Then they'd have to...
15
16 You will still have 4.9.4 until you unmerge it, and will still use
17 4.9.4 until you gcc-config to gcc5.
18
19 > GCC 5.4 Status: 2016-06-03 (regression fixes & docs only).
20 >
21 > GCC 6.3 Status: 2016-12-21 (regression fixes & docs only). 
22 >
23 > GCC 7.1 Status: 2017-04-20 (frozen, all changes require RM approval).
24 >
25 > Development: GCC 8.0 Status: 2017-04-20 (regression fixes & docs
26 > only).
27
28 Notice how 4.9 isn't even mentioned there as receiving regression fixes
29 or whatnot anymore.
30
31 >   Maybe we should what many enterprises do with Windows; i.e. skip a
32 > version and go straight to gcc-6.
33
34 No. Maybe with gcc 5 to 7.
35
36
37 Other than that, I am terribly sorry for your inconvenience. But 2014
38 called and wanted its compiler back :( So we are "bleeding edge" again