Re: DEBUG_GCSAFETY broken with g++ < 4.7

[Bruno H. <br...@cl...>]

Hi Sam,

> > The reason is that it introduces compilation errors when one attempts to use
> > DEBUG_GCSAFETY with g++ < 4.7.
> 
> The current GCC version is 6.
> Are you sure we need to support any version of GCC older than, say, 5?

RHEL 5.11 is supported until March 2017 and ships with G++ 4.1.x.
Ubuntu 12.04 is supported until April 2017 and ships with G++ 4.6.3.

> > The syntax   one_o:(o)
> > is only documented in the GCC doc [2] and is marked as "obsolete since GCC 2.5".
> > But with G++ 4.6.4 and older it's the only available syntax.
> 
> Am I the only one who finds this ironic? ("obsolete since 2.5, but the
> only option for 4.6.4 and older")

No. I find it strange too that they declared something "obsolete" and the
replacement was not available for 19 years.

> So what are you going to do?
> (obviously, I have no objections to whatever change you want to push)

I pushed it already. You should have received the automatic notification mail.

Bruno