On Monday, 05 February 2024 at 21:53, Niklas Haas wrote: > On Mon, 05 Feb 2024 15:13:22 -0500 Devin Heitmueller > <devin.heitmuel...@ltnglobal.com> wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 5, 2024 at 2:59 PM Anton Khirnov <an...@khirnov.net> wrote: > > > > > > It should be available in all relevant modern compilers and will > > > allow us to use features like anonymous unions. > > > > Is everybody on board with the implications for this patch in terms > > of platforms we allow building on? For example, the gcc on Centos7 > > doesn't support C17, and that isn't *that* old of a platform. > > > > If all the developers agree that we won't support less than Centos8, > > then so be it. But I think this should be a conscious decision, and > > we might want to reflect it in the documentation somewhere on what > > major platforms/versions we expect to be able to build on. > > Note that CentOS 7 stopped receiving package updates 4 years ago, and > will stop receiving security fixes in a couple of months. So this > discussion has an expiry date.
Even so, a C17-supporting compiler (gcc 11.2.1) is available for CentOS 7 in the devtoolset-11-gcc package (from http://mirror.centos.org/centos/7/sclo/x86_64/rh/). Regards, Dominik -- Fedora https://fedoraproject.org Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic. -- from "The Sayings of Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-devel mailing list ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org https://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel To unsubscribe, visit link above, or email ffmpeg-devel-requ...@ffmpeg.org with subject "unsubscribe".
