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| author | Gerald Pfeifer <gerald@pfeifer.com> | 2024-06-13 09:49:29 +0200 |
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| committer | Gerald Pfeifer <gerald@pfeifer.com> | 2024-06-13 09:49:29 +0200 |
| commit | 14820327c720dad2ca34eb9fa73c0d9b435b6688 (patch) | |
| tree | 22a8e3416a459ff9ab4a33c862bc8e5b9c1f5bed /gcc | |
| parent | e8f4d525cb320ff11dd95b985d8043fef0510878 (diff) | |
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doc: Streamline requirements on the build compiler
No need to talk about potential implementation bugs in older versions
than what we require. And no need to talk about building GCC 3.3 and
earlier at this point.
gcc:
PR other/69374
* doc/install.texi (Prerequisites): Simplify note on the C++
compiler required. Drop requirements for versions of GCC prior
to 3.4. Fix grammar.
Diffstat (limited to 'gcc')
| -rw-r--r-- | gcc/doc/install.texi | 8 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/gcc/doc/install.texi b/gcc/doc/install.texi index 165d48c..0baba5e 100644 --- a/gcc/doc/install.texi +++ b/gcc/doc/install.texi @@ -224,13 +224,11 @@ described below. @table @asis @item ISO C++11 compiler Necessary to bootstrap GCC. GCC 4.8.3 or newer has sufficient -support for used C++11 features, with earlier GCC versions you -might run into implementation bugs. +support for used C++11 features. Versions of GCC prior to 11 also allow bootstrapping with an ISO C++98 -compiler, versions of GCC prior to 4.8 also allow bootstrapping with a -ISO C89 compiler, and versions of GCC prior to 3.4 also allow -bootstrapping with a traditional (K&R) C compiler. +compiler, and versions of GCC prior to 4.8 also allow bootstrapping with +an ISO C89 compiler. To build all languages in a cross-compiler or other configuration where 3-stage bootstrap is not performed, you need to start with an existing |