On Fri, 29 Mar 2019 09:07:48 +0000 Holger wrote: > > Last night I tracked it down. It only happens with: > > * 64 bit arch > > * gcc 4.9.x > > Why is this version of GCC used? What prevents the usage of GCC8? > > > On 29. Mar 2019, at 10:15, Derek Zhou wrote: > > there are poor poeple still stuck with old compilers > > Is this true for mainstream OS and CPU platforms? > Even for old CentOS there is support for newer compilers.
also, there are a number of distros that fully support i686 computers, such as debian/parabola/arch32/connochaetos - parabola i686 with a fully graphical desktop, a 5.0 kernel, and GCC v8.2.1 can run on a pentium 2 with 128MB RAM - arch is actually working on a port for 486; which is incomplete, but already runs linux 5 and GCC 8 for that reason, in order to support 99% of PC users, while still allowing for a variety of popular distros, the oldest platforms that need to be supported are the oldest of the current LTS distros, such as debian - the current GCC in debian stable (debian9) is v6.3.0, and very soon that will be v8.3.0 (debian10) _______________________________________________ help-smalltalk mailing list help-smalltalk@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-smalltalk
