On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 04:09:01PM -0500, Greg Beaton wrote: > What is the point of updating the gcc you use? Don't you just run the > risk of making incompatible with existing systems. For example, I just > bought a MacBook Pro last summer. It was shipped with gcc 4.0.1. If > its good enough for Apple, what is gained by 3rd party software using > more recent versions. Don't you then have to bundle gcc with GHDL?
No, I don't bundle gcc with GHDL. > I don't know. It seems like every open source product has its own > version of gcc. Whatever happened to backward compatibility. Backward compatibility is not really an issue. GHDL depends only on a very few APIs. Of course I can stay with an old version of gcc, but the point is that this is not possible for a long time. For example very old versions of gcc doesn't compile anymore on current systems. The later I update the gcc I used the harder it is. Tristan. _______________________________________________ Ghdl-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/ghdl-discuss
