F22 System Wide Change: GCC5

[Jakub Jelinek]

On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 02:44:03PM +0000, Richard Hughes wrote:
> On 14 January 2015 at 14:37, Jonathan Underwood
> <jonathan.underwood at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Only a partial answer to your question, but one fairly significant
> > change (as you know) compared to the GCC upgrades for those releases
> > is moving from C89 to C11 as the default C standard for the compiler
> 
> Is there any easy way for humble little upstream maintainers to test
> their code with the new compiler?

You mean for the C89 -> C11 default change, or for other changes in GCC 5?
For the former, just build with -std=gnu11 with GCC 4.9 (or 4.8).
The latter is mainly C++ or new features, so something you don't hit on
average C code.

	Jakub