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

[Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn]

Chad Versace schrieb:

> 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?
> 
> Before 2007 I had not even been introduced to Linux, so I'm not in a position to
> answer that question.

If you care about a bit more than Linux: gcc-4.2 is the last version
that was released under GPL 2. For that reason, in some places gcc-4.2
is the latest release available. One example is Apple, who provide their
specially patched gcc only up to version 4.2.1.


Best regards,
Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn