Hello, about 2.5 years ago I started playing with more recent versions of GCC: the intent was to support illumos by providing a testing environment for new compilers. I added GCC 5.x in Aug 2016, GCC 6.x in Jan 2017, GCC 7.x in April 2017, then GCC 8.x in Jan 2018.
With the help of Rich Lowe illumos patches were rebased to allow building illumos and userland wih the same compiler: GCC 5/6 in Feb 2017 , GCC 7 in April 2017, GCC 8 in Jan 2018. Dates are a good way to measure that many things that happened since the first stages. Thanks to Toomas who relentlessly fixed illumos-gate with gcc-7 we are now able to build it (I have been running for almost a year cherry-picking his patches on the go). Rich finally pushed GCC 7.3.0-il-1 as the new candidate for the default illumos compiler: https://github.com/illumos/gcc/releases This is a great achievement, congratulations to Toomas, Rich, and everybody involved. A shadow compilaton with gcc-7 was added recently to illumos-gate to identify possible issues introduced by RTIs. Our gcc-7 paclage will be updated soon with the il-1 patchset (same patchset except one patch has been improved by John Levon): gcc 7.3.0-OI-2 will become gcc 7.3.0-il-1. We still provide testing build based on gcc-8 for userland, and gcc-7 for illumos-gate: https://pkg.openindiana.org/gcc-next/ While illumos-gate does not build yet with gcc-8 the patchset has been around for a while: looking forward to the next GCC 8.x.0-il. Kind regards, Aurélien -- --- Praise the Caffeine embeddings
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