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From: Andrew Haley <aph@redhat.com>
To: NightStrike <nightstrike@gmail.com>
Cc: gcc-help <gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Minimum compiler requriements
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 15:58:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <18278.40076.320729.308905@zebedee.pink> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b609cb3b0712090814l40a66aa8r5f842ddb148a70ca@mail.gmail.com>

NightStrike writes:
 > Currently, to build gcc requires using the system compiler to build
 > part of gcc, then gcc compiles the rest of itself with itself.  If the
 > system compiler is also gcc, what is the minimum version that can be
 > used?
 
gcc requires an ISO C compiler, so any compliant version of gcc will
do.  We don't routinely test building it with old compilers.

Andrew.

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2007-12-09 16:14 NightStrike
2007-12-17 15:58 ` Andrew Haley [this message]

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