[OmniOS-discuss] Query - Update gcc48 to gccXX, which XX?

[Tim Rice]

On Mon, 18 May 2015, Dan McDonald wrote:

> Now this isn't a gcc update for illumos/illumos-omnios... that way is full of pain, and I'll wait for now.
> 
> OTOH, we've transitioned gcc before going into r151008 with 4.8.1.
> 
> My question to you all is this:  To which gcc version should we jump?  I see two viable candidates:

Any reason not to consider CLANG instead of GCC?

> 
> 	- gcc 4.9.2 (last updated October 2014)
> or
> 	- gcc 5.1 (last updated April 2015)
> 
> The current gcc "development" is happening on 6.0, and we're not ready for that.
> 
> I appreciate feedback.  I'll be making a decision soon, as I hope to land a compiler upgrade as the major push for this bloody cycle and r151016.
> 
> Thanks,
> Dan
> 

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