upgrade gcc on fedora core 4

[Andrew Haley]

On 09/11/2010 05:24 PM, john wendel wrote:
> On 09/11/2010 01:33 AM, Andrew Haley wrote:
>> On 09/10/2010 07:55 PM, Tom Horsley wrote:
>>> On Fri, 10 Sep 2010 11:10:56 -0700
>>> JD wrote:
>>>
>>>> If you build it from gnu tarball, then you will not get the
>>>> fixes that go into it from the community before it is used
>>>> in a distro. But then, it might give the op what s/he wants.
>>>
>>> Of course the odds are good that the source is using
>>> features not supported on the ancient gcc in fc4, so
>>> you might need to build several historical versions
>>> to bootstrap up to the latest gcc :-).
>>
>> gcc is written in Standard C so that it can bootstrap on many
>> systems.  It'll be fine.
> 
> I seem to recall that the GNU compiler developers have recently allowed 
> C++ code in the compilers. Don't know what version that started with.

We've agreed to do it, but I don't think anyone has actually committed
any C++ code to the trunk yet.  There's a gcc in c++ branch, and we're
fixing the front ends where they don't build with a C++ compiler.

Andrew.