Re: [C++] System Requirements

On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 4:34 PM, Ben Longbons <[email protected]> wrote:
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Table of selected distributions and their compiler versions.
RHEL 7 (? .. ?): gcc 4.8.2
RHEL 6 (2010-11-10 .. ????): gcc 4.4.7
RHEL 5 (2007-03-15 .. ????): gcc 4.1.2
(I am unsure of exactly which of Red Hat's support levels is most
meaningful, I imagine RHEL5 to be the point of contention)

Debian 7 (2013-05-04 .. ??): gcc 4.7.2
Debian 6 (2011-02-06 .. ?2014-05): gcc 4.4.5
Debian 5 (2009-02-15 .. 2012-02-06): gcc 4.3.2

Ubuntu 14.04 (?2014-04-17 .. ?2019-04): gcc 4.8.2
Ubuntu 12.04 (2012-04-26 .. 2017-04): gcc 4.6.3
Ubuntu 10.04 (2010-04-29 .. ?2015-04): gcc 4.4.3
Ubuntu 8.04 (2008-04-24 .. 2013-05-09): gcc 4.2.3

FreeBSD 10 (?): gcc 4.6.4
FreeBSD 9.2 (2013-09-30): gcc 4.6.4
FreeBSD 9.0 (2012-01-12): gcc 4.4.7
FreeBSD 8.2 (2011-02-23): gcc 4.3.4

NetBSD 6.1.1 (2013-08-22): gcc 4.8.1
NetBSD 5.1 (2010-11-19): gcc 3.3.6

OpenBSD 5.4 (2013-11-01): gcc 4.2.1
OpenBSD 4.7 (2010-05-19): gcc 3.3.5

Mac OS X 10.8 (2012-07-25) (Xcode 5): force clang snapshot
Mac OS X 10.6 (2009-06-08) (Xcode 3.2): clang snapshots available
Mac OS X 10.5 (2007-10-26) (Xcode 3.1): gcc 4.2
Mac OS X 10.4 (2005-04-29) (Xcode 2.0): gcc 4.0