[patch] Note that we now require 4.7 or 4.8

Duncan Sands baldrick at free.fr
Sat Jan 25 01:17:27 PST 2014


Hi Rafael,

On 25/01/14 02:44, Rafael EspĂ­ndola wrote:
> Cheers,
> Rafael
>

> diff --git a/README b/README
> index 2f4e2c6..fb9be3c 100644
> --- a/README
> +++ b/README
> @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
>  Prerequisites
>  -------------
>
> -The dragonegg plugin works with gcc 4.5, 4.6, 4.7 or 4.8, so you will need to
> +The dragonegg plugin works with gcc 4.7 or 4.8, so you will need to
>  have one of these installed.  Many linux distributions ship one or both of them,
>  perhaps as an addon package; binaries can be downloaded for most platforms.
>  Otherwise you can always build gcc yourself.  Plugin support (--enable-plugin)

there's nothing stopping you building a dragonegg plugin for 4.5 or 4.6, you 
just have to use 4.7 or 4.8 to build it.  Since 4.6 is the most recent gcc 
version with which dragonegg works reliably, I think dropping it is a mistake. 
Dropping support for 4.5 is fair enough, and would simplify the dragonegg code 
(which has special cases for 4.5).  I can understand that you don't want to say 
we support a version of gcc (4.6) which we are not testing, but I think the 
right solution is to test it.

Ciao, Duncan.



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