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

[Chad Versace]

On 08/10/2012 03:40 PM, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote:
> 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
> 
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Thanks for the infom, Chí-Thanh. Based on this, I will let configure.ac add the
flag conditionally based on gcc feature detection.

-Chad