Gale Paeper wrote:
On Mar 12, 2008, at 12:35 PM, Waldek Hebisch wrote:
Using gpc with gcc-4.2 or gcc-4.3 is currently not supported, but gcc-4.1.2 should work fine.
Waldek, what is the status in getting GPC building from either gcc-4.2 or gcc-4.3 bases supported?
The situation essentially is the same as in December 2005: I tried build with 4.2 and I fixed a bunch of problems. But then I noticed that backend folks removed support for character type from the backend. So proper port to 4.2 should internally use integer type to represent Pascal character type. This is not very big change, but also not a trivial one. At that time I decided to suspend 4.2 port and concentrate on 4.1. I can not what more is strictly necessary for 4.2 port, usually most porting effort goes into fixing new bugs and that is of course very unpredictable.
Let me clearly say that ATM I am _not_ working on 4.2/4.3 port -- currently most of my programming effort goes into computer algebra, more precisely FriCAS:
Also, there are few things which strictly speaking are not neccessary for 4.2 port, but which probably should be done first (like changing sets implementation).