F22 System Wide Change: GCC5

[Helio Chissini de Castro]

On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 1:46 PM, Jonathan Underwood <
jonathan.underwood at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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?
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+1 for this.

Will help a lot to see how all the code base is behaving well on new
standards
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