Re: error building classpath with gcj 3.3.5

[Michael Koch]

On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 10:41:45PM +0200, Mark Wielaard wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 13:27 +0200, Michael Koch wrote:
> > > Lets drop support for gcj < 3.4 now (3.3 is really ancient). And only
> > > support gcj 4.0+ after the next snapshot (0.16) next month. GCC 4.0
> > > isn't included in many distributions yet. Hopefully in 3 months when
> > > 0.17 comes out this won't be a problem anymore.
> > 
> > Depending on GCJ 3.4 and up gains us nothing as 3.4 has the same inner 
> > classes bugs
> > as 3.3 has.
> 
> As does 4.0 probably.
> What it gains us is less versions to test against.

4.0 has some fixes in this area. 3.3 and 3.4 is the same in this area.
Noone will do fixes for 3.4 and older anymore. When we force people to fix
4.0 this is good. With the workarounds in classpath noone will ever fix
the bugs.


Michael
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