Re: GNUstep: Specifying a minimum supported compiler version and using C++17 internally

[Lucas Holt]

On 8/31/24 8:42 AM, Hugo Melder wrote:
> My proposal is to bump the minimum supported GCC version to GCC 9.x 
> which is the supported version in RHEL8. When enforcing this minimum 
> version of GCC, we can focus on writing C17 (GCC 8.x or later).  For 
> the libobjc2-based toolchain, any recent clang version (16 or later) 
> will do. Background for this is that older clang versions had serious 
> bugs when targeting MSVC.
Let's not just think about one Linux distro or even just Linux when 
making decisions like this.  GNUstep runs on a lot of operating systems 
with different compilers and libraries.

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Lucas Holt
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