On Fri, 2021-07-23 at 14:36 -0400, Mark Ito via Gcc-help wrote:
> Folks,
>
> Out in the wild, I see several Linux distributions that use GCC 8.3.1.
> But
> in the GCC git repository there is no such tag. releases/gcc-8.3.0 is
> the
> closest. Two questions:
>
> 1) Should I worry about the difference between 8.3.0 and 8.3.1?
In 99% cases, no. But there are still those 1% cases where 8.3.0 may
crash ("internal compiler error") building something, but "8.3.1" will
work.
> 2) If so, where do I get the source for 8.3.1?
GCC upstream have not release x.y.1 (since 5.1.0 release). x.y.1 is
just "some commit between x.y.0 and x.(y+1).0".
And distros may apply some their own modifications unknown by upstream.
For example, Ubuntu is modifying their GCC code to enable -fPIE by
default. The modifications (in .patch or .diff files) or modified GCC
source tree should be available somewhere on the website of the distro.
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Xi Ruoyao <xry111@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
School of Aerospace Science and Technology, Xidian University
