compiler standards (and/or min gcc version) supported with installed headers ?

[Andreas Jaeger]

On Friday, January 04, 2013 13:56:00 Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Friday 04 January 2013 11:29:34 Andreas Jaeger wrote:
> > * glibc needs a recent GCC compiler version to build itself (right
> > now> 
> >    "requires GCC version 4.3 or newer to build; GCC 4.6 is
> >    recommended.")
> > 
> > ...
> > 
> >    - The header files for glibc use GCC 4.3 as baseline for
> >    
> >      optimizations
> 
> should we just lock this version to whatever version we have locked
> for building ?  i.e. when we start requiring a newer gcc to build
> (e.g. 4.8), we also say that we use that as the baseline for
> optimizations ?

Good idea. Do you have a proposal for a wording?

Andreas
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