On 09/11/2010 05:24 PM, john wendel wrote: > On 09/11/2010 01:33 AM, Andrew Haley wrote: >> On 09/10/2010 07:55 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: >>> On Fri, 10 Sep 2010 11:10:56 -0700 >>> JD wrote: >>> >>>> If you build it from gnu tarball, then you will not get the >>>> fixes that go into it from the community before it is used >>>> in a distro. But then, it might give the op what s/he wants. >>> >>> Of course the odds are good that the source is using >>> features not supported on the ancient gcc in fc4, so >>> you might need to build several historical versions >>> to bootstrap up to the latest gcc :-). >> >> gcc is written in Standard C so that it can bootstrap on many >> systems. It'll be fine. > > I seem to recall that the GNU compiler developers have recently allowed > C++ code in the compilers. Don't know what version that started with. We've agreed to do it, but I don't think anyone has actually committed any C++ code to the trunk yet. There's a gcc in c++ branch, and we're fixing the front ends where they don't build with a C++ compiler. Andrew. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
