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| author | Lancelot Six <lancelot.six@amd.com> | 2023-09-12 12:34:51 +0000 |
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| committer | Lancelot Six <lancelot.six@amd.com> | 2023-10-28 19:25:34 +0000 |
| commit | f74dc26792a0679e29db45e56367331ff48666d1 (patch) | |
| tree | c70261e72422a288b139750893933098e5ad0c24 /gdb/NEWS | |
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gdb/gdbsupport/gdbserver: Require c++17
This patch proposes to require a C++17 compiler to build gdb /
gdbsupport / gdbserver. Before this patch, GDB required a C++11
compiler.
The general policy regarding bumping C++ language requirement in GDB (as
stated in [1]) is:
Our general policy is to wait until the oldest compiler that
supports C++NN is at least 3 years old.
Rationale: We want to ensure reasonably widespread compiler
availability, to lower barrier of entry to GDB contributions, and to
make it easy for users to easily build new GDB on currently
supported stable distributions themselves. 3 years should be
sufficient for latest stable releases of distributions to include a
compiler for the standard, and/or for new compilers to appear as
easily installable optional packages. Requiring everyone to build a
compiler first before building GDB, which would happen if we
required a too-new compiler, would cause too much inconvenience.
See the policy proposal and discussion
[here](https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2016-10/msg00616.html).
The first GCC release which with full C++17 support is GCC-9[2],
released in 2019[3], which is over 4 years ago. Clang has had C++17
support since Clang-5[4] released in 2018[5].
A discussions with many distros showed that a C++17-able compiler is
always available, meaning that this no hard requirement preventing us to
require it going forward.
[1] https://sourceware.org/gdb/wiki/Internals%20GDB-C-Coding-Standards#When_is_GDB_going_to_start_requiring_C.2B-.2B-NN_.3F
[2] https://gcc.gnu.org/projects/cxx-status.html#cxx17
[3] https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-9/
[4] https://clang.llvm.org/cxx_status.html
[5] https://releases.llvm.org/
Change-Id: Id596f5db17ea346e8a978668825787b3a9a443fd
Reviewed-By: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Approved-By: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
Approved-By: Pedro Alves <pedro@palves.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'gdb/NEWS')
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@@ -3,6 +3,9 @@ *** Changes since GDB 14 +* Building GDB and GDBserver now requires a C++17 compiler. + For example, GCC 9 or later. + * GDB index now contains information about the main function. This speeds up startup when it is being used for some large binaries. |