[PATCH 1/3] Introduce gdb::unique_ptr

[Jan Kratochvil]

On Thu, 13 Oct 2016 12:06:33 +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> That depends.  Mingw.org has only 5.3.0 as the latest offering, and
> recently enough (a few months ago) it only had 4.9.3.  So please be very
> careful when you make assumptions about how widespread a certain
> compiler version is in n on-Posix world.

5.3.0 was released 2016-04-27
	https://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/MinGW/Base/gcc/Version5/gcc-5.3.0-2/
4.9.3 was released 2015-07-25
	https://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/MinGW/Base/gcc/Version4/gcc-4.9.3-1/

That was after 9 months.  4.8.1 was released May 2013 = 41 months ago.

I find 9 and 41 months a big difference.

Besides that AFAIK mingw.org is dead, it has been superseded by mingw-w64.org.

What are you trying to say?  A dead project makes releases 4.5x faster than
what GDB would require for its build.  You more justify that GDB could for
example require even C++14.  And even if someone does not have the C++11
compiler installed most of the users prefer to install applications (such as
is GDB) in a binary form anyway.  So even some very exceptional case we both
cannot even imagine still does not prevent the user from running GDB.


Jan