[haiku-development] Re: Questions about possible GCC update
- From: Adrien Destugues <pulkomandy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 7 May 2018 13:59:36 +0200
On Mon, May 07, 2018 at 01:43:16PM +0200, miqlas wrote:
I forgot to write i'm working on GCC8 right now, using the GCC7 patches. If
i can get it work i'll report back and will create a PR with the changes.
But i'm not sure, is GCC8 stable enough to give us a long term base?
Doesn't will it break all the GCC2->GCC5 migrated old sources and even new,
but not GCC8 targeted sources?
Chances for a disaster, i suppose. Any oppinion is really appreciated.
The compiler version does not matter for this. As I mentionned earlier,
GCC changed their versionning scheme. So the difference between GCC 5
and 8 is roughly the same as between 4.5 and 4.8. Things should still
work except for some corner cases (which is why we should give this some
testing before letting it go in the wild). But there is no need to
rewrite everything.
--
Adrien.
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