On Fri, Jul 21, 2017, at 07:30, sisyph...@optusnet.com.au wrote: > -----Original Message----- > From: kmx > Sent: Friday, July 21, 2017 10:51 PM > To: sisyph...@optusnet.com.au ; win32-vanilla@perl.org > Subject: Re: Strawberry Perl 5.24.2.1 released > > > On 21.07.2017 14:11, sisyph...@optusnet.com.au wrote: > >> 1) What version of gcc was used to build the 64-bit perl ? (I'm assuming > >> it would be 7.1.0, but maybe that's not the policy.) > > > > It is gcc 4.9.2 as it is 5.24.x series, gcc 7.1.0 is used in 5.26.x > > series. > > Aaah ... wasn't sure of the "rules".
Yes. The intent is to keep binary compatibility (and to do that, we have to keep the gcc version the same) as long as the second number is the same. --Curtis
