do we still care about building with gcc-4.9?

[Jan Beulich]

On 15.07.2026 15:02, Alan Modra wrote:
> gcc-4.9 does not like the parentheses or cast in AARCH64_FIELD when
> used in an initialiser:
> 
> opcodes/aarch64-opc-2.c:29:3: error: initializer element is not constant
>    {AARCH64_OPND_CLASS_INT_REG, "Rd", OPD_F_HAS_INSERTER | OPD_F_HAS_EXTRACTOR, {AARCH64_FIELD (0, 5)}, "an integer register"},
>    ^
> opcodes/aarch64-opc-2.c:29:3: error: (near initialization for ‘aarch64_operands[1].fields[0]’)
> 

To answer your question - I'd much prefer if we did. One of my main test
systems is at 4.8.5.

Jan