F22 System Wide Change: GCC5

[Jonathan Underwood]

On 14 January 2015 at 14:47, Jakub Jelinek <jakub at redhat.com> wrote:
> 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).

Perhaps it would be worth adding -std=gnu11 to the F22 default flags
now and having a rebuild, before gcc5 lands, to start shaking out
problems now?