Re: Antwort: Re: [PATCH]: bump minimum MPFR version, (includes some fortranbits)

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>]

On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 04:42:08PM +0200, Markus Milleder wrote:
> Vincent Lefevre schrieb am 13.10.2008 16:16:38:
> 
> > On 2008-10-07 21:42:30 +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > > But is there any "need to upgrade" to 2.3.2 since it would fix a bug
> > > gcc ran into?
> >
> > FYI, GCC can be affected by some bugs in MPFR 2.3.0, amongst the bugs
> 
> <snip bug list>
> 
> > All these bugs were fixed in MPFR 2.3.1. AFAIK, MPFR 2.3.2 should
> > not make any difference for GCC. The fixed bugs are listed here:
> 
> <snip again>
> 
> This seems to call for MPFR 2.3.1 as a minimum version for GCC 4.4
> 
> However, let me ask the reverse question:
> 
> Is there any reason not to demand 2.3.2 for GCC 4.4 ? Or even the newest MPFR version published before creating the GCC 4.4 release branch (which could be 2.3.3) ?

Upgrading can cause the user some unneeded work.

E.g. the next stable release of Debian will likely ship with 2.3.1 .
So in this specific case fulfilling a 2.3.1 requirement would be easy, 
while a 2.3.2 requirement would make it much harder to build gcc 4.4 .

And upgrading from 2.3.1 to let's say 3.0.0 might be a bad choice if
the new version contains regressions.

>       Markus Milleder

cu
Adrian

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