Re: Earliest version of gcc the project should support as stage1 for gcc 17?

Paul Koning via Gcc <[email protected]> Fri, 20 Mar 2026 15:23:33 -0400

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> On Mar 20, 2026, at 2:32 PM, Jonathan Wakely <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> ...
>>> That's an excellent principle.  Do we apply this to other dependencies?  I've noticed the prerequisite version of things like gmp creeping up.  Is that necessary?
> ...
> But that's just the versions that we download with that script, the
> minimum supported versions are much older, and haven't changed in
> ages.
> 
> The minimum MPC version was increased in 2020, the minimum MPFR was
> increased in 2019, and GMP 4.3.2 has been the minimum since 2010!
> 
> So I don't think you have noticed them creeping up :-)

I was probably thinking of MPC; I can't keep those apart.

	paul