[llvm-dev] [RFC] Increase minimum supported GCC version for building LLVM to 4.8

[Justin Bogner via llvm-dev]

Teresa Johnson via llvm-dev <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> writes:
> According to the documentation at
> http://llvm.org/docs/GettingStarted.html#software, compiling LLVM with GCC
> requires at least version 4.7.0. However, there are apparently several
> problems building current LLVM/Clang with gcc 4.7.X. This proposal is to
> increase the minimum required GCC to 4.8.

-1 unless it's particularly hard to fix the incompatibilities that have
been introduced or there are strong pain points in supporting 4.7.4. We
should only increase the minimum version of our host compilers if we
have strong motivation to do so.