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

[Gregory Casamento]

Hugo,

On Sun, Sep 1, 2024 at 10:14 AM Hugo Melder <hugo@algoriddim.com> wrote:

Hey Riccardo,

Right now GNUstep is currently very portable because it supports "archaic" GCC. Not just GCC, I mean GCC 4.x and I stand for that.

But why GCC 4.x? It was first released in March 10, 2006…

We used to support GCC 2.95.x.  The reason we moved to GCC4 was because it had just been released and it supported variadic macros that were needed in libobjc2 and elsewhere in the codebase.  This was by NO MEANS a recent decision. :)   Nor was it one taken lightly, at the time the number of systems that used GCC2.95.x was dwindling, but many were still around. 

Yours, GC

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