Russell Whitaker wrote:
On Thu, 9 Jan 2003, Frank Heckenbach wrote:
... I'd like to drop the gcc-3.1.1 support
The top 10 distros from distrowatch.com:
distro version rel date gcc version
Mandrake 9.0 2002/09/25 3.2 Red Hat 8.0 2002/09/30 3.2 Debian 3.0r0 2002/12/15 2.95.4 Sourcerer grimoire 2003/01/09 3.2.1 Gentoo sources 2003/01/09 3.2.1 Suze 8.1 2002/09/30 3.2 Slackware 8.1 2002/06/18 2.95.3 (see note) Lycoris Amethyst2 2002/07/27 2.95.2 Lindows 3.0 2003/11/16 2.95.4 United 1.0Beta3 2003/11/19 3.2
note: Slackware-current, the next version of slackware, is using gcc 3.2.1
It looks like gcc 3.1.1 is rapidly becoming history.
The difference between GCC 3.1 and 3.2 is mostly for C++ ABI stability. Vendors shouldn't be using GCC 3.1. So dropping support for it shouldn't be an issue.
Regards,
Nick.