On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 03:47:18PM +0100, Jakub Jelinek wrote: > On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 02:44:03PM +0000, Richard Hughes wrote: > > On 14 January 2015 at 14:37, Jonathan Underwood > > <jonathan.underwood@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Only a partial answer to your question, but one fairly significant > > > change (as you know) compared to the GCC upgrades for those releases > > > is moving from C89 to C11 as the default C standard for the compiler > > > > Is there any easy way for humble little upstream maintainers to test > > their code with the new compiler? > > You mean for the C89 -> C11 default change, or for other changes in GCC 5? > For the former, just build with -std=gnu11 with GCC 4.9 (or 4.8). > The latter is mainly C++ or new features, so something you don't hit on > average C code. I think it's a valid request. Of course packagers can approximate, but to test for issues it would be best to have a simple way to build with gcc5 from the latest snapshot. How do you expect people to make an informed decision otherwise? Zbyszek -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
