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On Saturday 29 December 2012 10:37:55 Joseph S. Myers wrote: > On Fri, 28 Dec 2012, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > seems like something we should have spelled out in the manual and/or faq. > > what standards do we want to support with installed headers ? and > > similarly, what min gcc version ? > > Practically, GCC versions before 2.7.2.3 are fairly irrelevant because > they didn't support glibc 2.x with the Linux kernel (or GNU Hurd) - and > for architecture-specific headers, the minimum versions may be newer on > similar grounds. Some headers however may be shared with gnulib, where > older compilers may be relevant. > > I have suggested (in the projects list > <http://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Development_Todo/Master> - note that the > ideas listed there are not necessarily fully formed project suggestions > and may not all have consensus) that __GLIBC_HAVE_LONG_LONG should be > removed - that support for "long long" should be considered a required > feature for use of the installed headers. gcc-2.95.3 is the oldest version i care about. and it supports long long. -mike
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