On Thu, 14 Jan 2016 11:17:59 -0800 Jeff Mickey <j...@codemac.net> wrote:
> * Efraim Flashner <efr...@flashner.co.il> [2016-01-12 08:31]: > > Go-1.4 is built using gccgo-4.9, and go-1.5 uses go-1.4 to build, so I'm > > pretty confident that go-1.4 works, and since go-1.5 inherits from go-1.4 > > it should be working too. > > I'm a bit confused - go-1.4 is not a bootstrapped release, and requires > a working C compiler. Exactly what go code is being built with go-1.4? > Reading the google group for go, it looks like go-1.5 uses go-1.4 to bootstrap itself, and then it uses that to rebuild itself for a final copy. I was under the impression that the go binary/compiler worked by itself and only needed the C compiler to compile the go binary. > And isn't anything before gcc-5 building a different go runtime than the > standard compilers due to gccgo's lack of support for segmented > stacks. I would not suggest running much go code with pre-gcc-5 > > // codemac -- Efraim Flashner <efr...@flashner.co.il> אפרים פלשנר GPG key = A28B F40C 3E55 1372 662D 14F7 41AA E7DC CA3D 8351 Confidentiality cannot be guaranteed on emails sent or received unencrypted
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