Kay Röpke wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> On Mar 6, 2009, at 7:30 PM, Monty Taylor wrote:
> 
>> (Oldest GCC we support - which is itself too
>> old, but it's all OSX ships and everyone things OSX is "cool" - is 4.0.2)
> 
> 
> ok, i can't resist the urge to feed the troll (sorry, monty, but it's
> trolling)

Yes yes... I assume people know I'm trolling whenever I mention OSX...
on the other hand, THANK YOU for this useful information that I'm quite
happy to learn. (I would love to ditch support for 4.0.2 as long as that
doesn't mean losing OS X devs - troll though I might be, )

> Xcode 3.1.1, os Mac OS X 10.5.6, shows me these options for a project:
> GCC 3.3, 4.0, 4.2 (4.0 is the "gcc system version" aka default)
> LLVM GCC 4.2
> 
> speaking of compilers, does anyone compile with LLVM/gcc? it's the brave
> new world, you know ;) (since clang will probably not be ready yet to
> compile this much c++ code)
> 
> I don't think you want to to deal with 10.4, so using gcc 4.2 is not a
> problem at all:
> 
> mobile-classdump:~ kroepke$ which gcc-4.2
> /usr/bin/gcc-4.2

And so it seems you are correct!

> there used to be a script called gcc_select that shipped when apple
> introduced gcc 4.0 support, but that seems no longer part of the
> package, presumably because it's not needed anymore.
> simply detecting and using gcc-4.2 should not be a problem, though.

Agree. /me goes to work on this right now...

Any Mac people out there have a problem with me setting the bar up to 4.2?

Monty

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