On 10/28/19 2:27 PM, Segher Boessenkool wrote: > On Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 01:40:03PM -0600, Jeff Law wrote: >> On 10/25/19 6:01 PM, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote: >>> Jason, Jonathan - is the situation on the terrain really that dire that >>> C++11 (or C++14) isn't at all available for platforms that GCC is >>> bootstrapped from? >> The argument that I'd make is that's relatively uncommon (I know, I know >> AIX) that bootstrapping in those environments may well require first >> building something like gcc-9. >> >> I'd really like to see us move to C++11 or beyond. Sadly, I don't think >> we have any good mechanism for making this kind of technical decision >> when there isn't consensus. > > Which GCC version will be required to work as bootstrap compiler? Will > 4.8.5 be enough? I'd say gcc-9. What would we gain by making it 4.8 or anything else that old?
jeff