John L. Ries wrote:
Sooner or later support for 2.95 will be dropped -- in fact, probably together with 2.8.1, as many relevant internal differences (mostly the backend memory management) are the same, and we really should get rid of them sometime. So, while it's not urgent yet, you might try, when you find the time, to build newer versions on those machines and report any problems. Which kind of systems are they, BTW?
IBM AIX 4.2 DEC UNIX 5.0 SGI IRIX 6.5
I succesfully built GPC with gcc-3.2.3 on AIX 5.1, and with gcc-3.3.3 on IRIX 64 6.5. Both were in 2004, but I don't know that newer GPC or GCC versions will cause new problems. (The GCC versions are just those I happened to use then, and probably not strict requriemets.)
I don't know if AIX 4.2 is much different from 5.1, and I haven't used DEC UNIX at all.
If you want to try it, I suggest you start with Waldek's last GPC snapshot and a 3.4 version of GCC (trying older GCC versions only if there are unsourmountable problems, as those will eventually be dropped as well). If it doesn't work, you might try building GCC without GPC, to find out whether the problems are in GCC or GPC.
Frank