Re: Build failure with version 2007-08-20

al davis wrote:
> Thank you .. Stuart for testing it on 3.3, and the bug report, 
> and David for a diagnosis and quick fix.
> 
> I ran some tests on 3.3 
> - confirmed the problem
> - and that David's patch works
> - and there are still more problems with 3.3, that I was able to 
> work around, sort of.


> Back to the 3.3 issue ... I need to decide where to draw the 
> line on supporting old compilers.  Using an enum here is no 
> problem.  If that was all that is needed, I would do it.  I 
> have concerns about the other problems with g++-3.3, 
> particularly the stack overflow, which happens on both 32 and 
> 64 bit systems.  (Actually, all of the mentioned problems 
> happen both on an AMD-64 and Intel-32.)

any conclusions on this?  Unfortunately most of the computers I use have 
gcc-3.2 or gcc-3.3.

Doing some upgrades has been on my list for a while, but I haven't had a 
chance yet.

-Dan