Re: Supporting old GCCs?

Bruce Guenter <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.sysutils.bgware
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 11:06:14AM -0600, Bruce Guenter wrote:
> I have just added support for a feature in bglibs that requires the use
> of va_copy from stdarg.h and variadic macros.  Both are features of the
> C99 standard that EGCS and GCC older than version 3 do not support
> (although GCC has a different variadic macro mechanism that does work).

I have since discovered that gcc 2.95 and later (found in RedHat 7.3 at
least) do support C99.  So the question becomes:

Is it reasonable to require GCC 2.95 or later (or equivalent other
compiler that supports C99 such as ICC)?
-- 
Bruce Guenter <[email protected]> http://em.ca/~bruceg/ http://untroubled.org/
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