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They're all similar in features support.

The long range of dates is just because they're better at long term support than we are. :-)

Different distros will have different dot versions, but they are essentially the same for our purposes (c++ support).

Cheers,
Renato


On 13 Oct 2016 12:59 a.m., "Pete Cooper via llvm-dev" <llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org> wrote:
+1 from me.

But which version of 4.8.x? 4.8.0 was released in March 2013 while 4.8.5 is June 2015 (see https://gcc.gnu.org/releases.html)

Thats an awfully long time between those dates, so i can’t imagine everyone being on 4.8.5, but shouldn’t we aim for the highest possible one if we’re bumping versions anyway?

Looking at Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=gcc-4.8), appears that 4.8.4 is available for many platforms, so if possible that might be a good version to do.

Cheers,
Pete
On Oct 12, 2016, at 4:28 PM, Joerg Sonnenberger via llvm-dev <llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org> wrote:

On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 03:51:07PM -0700, Teresa Johnson via llvm-dev wrote:
According to the documentation at
http://llvm.org/docs/GettingStarted.html#software, compiling LLVM with GCC
requires at least version 4.7.0\. However, there are apparently several
problems building current LLVM/Clang with gcc 4.7.X. This proposal is to
increase the minimum required GCC to 4.8.

Fine with me.

Joerg
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