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From: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
Cc: brobecker@adacore.com, markus.t.metzger@intel.com,
	       gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] Introduce gdb::unique_ptr
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2016 10:27:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <53d106ee-26d3-b6dc-1810-0c7dcaef2f84@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83y41s8swm.fsf@gnu.org>

On 10/13/2016 11:06 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> Like I said before: upgrading the system compiler is a serious
> decision.  

True.  But that's not what these packages do.

> Installing a newer compiler could easily break the build of
> several important packages, which then requires an avalanche of
> upgrading across the board, just to get those package to build again.

True.  But that's not what these packages do.

> That is why many shops which want stable environments and need to
> continue supporting existing products don't bother upgrading the
> compiler and the core libraries, unless someone pays for that.

True.  But that's not what these packages do.

The newer compilers available as packages on these old distros
(e.g., DTS on RHEL) do _not_ replace the system compiler.  They're
installed in parallel, in separate directories.  You willfully add them
to the PATH or pass an overridden CXX to configure/make if you want to 
use them.

Thanks,
Pedro Alves


  reply	other threads:[~2016-10-13 10:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 72+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-10-10 16:46 [PATCH 0/3] More cleanup elimination / gdb::unique_ptr Pedro Alves
2016-10-10 16:46 ` [PATCH 3/3] 'struct parse_expression *' -> gdb::unique_ptr<expression> Pedro Alves
2016-10-10 16:46 ` [PATCH 1/3] Introduce gdb::unique_ptr Pedro Alves
2016-10-10 17:49   ` Simon Marchi
2016-10-10 18:03     ` Pedro Alves
2016-10-11  6:48   ` Metzger, Markus T
2016-10-11 10:23     ` Pedro Alves
2016-10-11 10:53       ` Andreas Schwab
2016-10-11 11:17       ` Metzger, Markus T
2016-10-11 11:43         ` Pedro Alves
2016-10-11 13:58           ` Yao Qi
2016-10-11 14:05           ` Trevor Saunders
2016-10-11 12:16       ` Joel Brobecker
2016-10-11 13:46         ` Pedro Alves
2016-10-11 14:47           ` Joel Brobecker
2016-10-11 15:17             ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-11 16:24               ` Pedro Alves
2016-10-11 16:58                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-11 17:41                   ` Pedro Alves
2016-10-11 18:37                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-11 19:19                       ` Pedro Alves
2016-10-11 20:47                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-11 21:32                           ` Pedro Alves
2016-10-12  6:34                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-12  8:11                               ` Metzger, Markus T
2016-10-12  9:31                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-12 10:12                                   ` Pedro Alves
2016-10-12 11:05                                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-12 11:25                                       ` Pedro Alves
2016-10-12 11:45                                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-13 12:12                                           ` Pedro Alves
2016-10-12 10:28                                 ` Pedro Alves
2016-10-12 11:07                                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-12 11:19                                     ` Pedro Alves
2016-10-12 11:41                                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-12 11:55                                         ` Pedro Alves
2016-10-13  0:38                                   ` [PATCH] Enable C++11 starting with gcc 4.8 (was: Re: [PATCH 1/3] Introduce gdb::unique_ptr) Pedro Alves
2016-10-13  0:45                                     ` [PATCH 1/2] gdb: Import AX_CXX_COMPILE_STDCXX from the GNU Autoconf Archive Pedro Alves
2016-10-13  0:45                                     ` [PATCH 2/2] gdb: Enable C++11 if available Pedro Alves
2016-10-12  9:37                               ` [PATCH 1/3] Introduce gdb::unique_ptr Pedro Alves
2016-10-12 10:51                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-12 11:15                                   ` Pedro Alves
2016-10-12 11:40                                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-12 11:45                                   ` Jan Kratochvil
2016-10-12 11:56                                     ` Luis Machado
2016-10-12 12:03                                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-13  9:07                                       ` Jan Kratochvil
2016-10-13 10:07                                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-13 10:27                                           ` Pedro Alves [this message]
2016-10-13 13:22                                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-13 13:36                                               ` Pedro Alves
2016-10-13 13:59                                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-13 14:04                                                   ` Pedro Alves
2016-10-13 15:06                                                     ` Joel Brobecker
2016-10-13 10:46                                           ` Jan Kratochvil
2016-10-13 11:15                                             ` Pedro Alves
2016-10-13 13:28                                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-13 13:42                                               ` Pedro Alves
2016-10-13 14:07                                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-11 19:23                       ` Simon Marchi
2016-10-11 20:54                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-11 21:28                           ` Simon Marchi
2016-10-12  6:23                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-11 21:16                         ` Jan Kratochvil
2016-10-11 17:15                 ` Luis Machado
2016-10-11 18:21                   ` Pedro Alves
2016-10-10 16:58 ` [PATCH 0/3] More cleanup elimination / gdb::unique_ptr Pedro Alves
2016-10-16  7:05   ` Tom Tromey
2016-10-17 13:57     ` Pedro Alves
2016-10-17 14:07       ` Tom Tromey
2016-10-17 14:59         ` Pedro Alves
2016-10-20 13:46   ` Pedro Alves

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