[Mesa-dev] [PATCH] mesa: Remove C++11 narrowing warnings

[Andy Furniss]

Andy Furniss wrote:
> Chad Versace wrote:
>
>> Andy, I just reverted the patch.
>
> Ok, thanks
>
>>
>> This opens a larger question. gcc 4.2 was released in May 2007, over 5
>> years
>> ago, and received its last update in May 2008. How old of a gcc should
>> new Mesa
>> releases support?
>
> That's a fair point - that was on an old LFS AGP box I don't really use
> apart from booting now and again to see if anything regressed/got fixed
> for older cards.
>
> I tested on a different box and I do get the same fail with a slightly
> less ancient -
>
> gcc (GCC) 4.5.1
> Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>
> This is also LFS - I don't know if the way it is set up has anything to
> do with it.

Oops - ignore the 4.5.1 - I was testing with CC= and g++ was still using 
an older version.