Re: GCC 4.3 support and language features

André Zwing <nerv(a)dawncrow.de> writes: Our policy is to not draw arbitrary lines of supported/unsupported. That's true for C standard versions, compiler versions, distros, window managers, graphics cards, etc. We want to support what our users are actually using. If someone reports an issue with their compiler, we want to look into it. We are not going to reject a report because the compiler is "too old", or out of maintenance, or on a distro we've hever heard of. That doesn't mean we have to fix everything, there's always a trade-off between the complexity/ugliness of the fix, the number of affected users, the availability of a workaround, etc. But that should be decided based on the actual issue, not on some arbitrary version number cutoff. So it may be that we want to require support for typedef redefinitions, because avoiding them is ugly. In practice, that would mean that you can't build with gcc 4.3 out of the box. But it does not mean that gcc 4.3 is somehow "unsupported". If someone reports some other issue with gcc 4.3, and that one is easy to fix, we'll still want to fix it. -- Alexandre Julliard julliard(a)winehq.org