On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 8:09 AM, Prof Brian Ripley
<rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
> This is getting increasingly difficult. GCC 4.6.x and 4.7.x detect a lot of
> errors (especially C++ errors) that earlier versions did not -- and that
> means CRAN gets a fair number of submissions that we cannot compile. And
> there have been a lot of optimization advances since 4.1.x.
I would also point out that clang has significantly better error
detection and diagnostics compared to current GCC. Installations
stuck with old GCC releases for GPL3 reasons should really migrate to
clang / llvm.
- Murray
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