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From: Richard Biener <richard.guenther@gmail.com>
To: Basile Starynkevitch <basile@starynkevitch.net>
Cc: Dodji Seketeli <dodji@seketeli.org>,
	Dave Johansen <davejohansen@gmail.com>,
	gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org, 	gerald@pfeifer.com,
	joseph@codesourcery.com
Subject: Re: Mention of gcc 4.5 as first version with plugin support
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 20:20:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFiYyc1khcDbwrg0aiN7rREcXuSfzdaK5t=_wo0xdDmZELFvoQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130111214650.d059ee02dbbd627e11ac945f@starynkevitch.net>

On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 9:46 PM, Basile Starynkevitch
<basile@starynkevitch.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Jan 2013 09:58:49 +0100
> Dodji Seketeli <dodji@seketeli.org> wrote:
>
>> Thank you Dave for this documentation patch that looks OK to my casual
>> eyes.  Let's CC the documentation maintainers.
>>
>> Dave Johansen <davejohansen@gmail.com> a écrit:
>>
>> >
>> > +GCC plugin support is available in GCC version 4.5.0 and
>> > +later.
>
> Maybe we should say that a later version is preferable.....
> IIRC 4.5 plugin support was not very good -it was more an experimental stage than
> anything else. I believe that we should not encourage people to write plugins against
> 4.5.....

What's the value of documenting the availability of an unstable API in
older versions
of GCC?  Mind this documentation is version specific.

Richard.

> Cheers.
>
> --
> Basile STARYNKEVITCH         http://starynkevitch.net/Basile/
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  reply	other threads:[~2013-01-14 20:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-01-11  4:00 Dave Johansen
2013-01-11  8:58 ` Dodji Seketeli
2013-01-11 20:47   ` Basile Starynkevitch
2013-01-14 20:20     ` Richard Biener [this message]
2013-01-14 16:20       ` Dave Johansen
2015-04-13  0:40         ` Gerald Pfeifer
2013-01-11 15:02 ` Diego Novillo

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