On Sun, Jan 22, 2023 at 11:40:46AM -0700, Jeff Law via Gcc-help wrote: > On 1/22/23 10:37, Mark Butt wrote: > >No, there is no reason to be at 8.3.0 other than this was the minimum > >required. I thought that I might have better luck getting 8.3 to work vs > >a newer version given the age of the hardware, I will, however, try a > >newer version as suggested. > > > >Would you recommend going with a particular version or just get the latest > >and greatest? > I'd just go with the latest release. You could go with one of the > weekly development snapshots, but that may introduce problems you don't > want to deal with. Yes. And some things that have been fixed in the newest release series have not been fixed in older ones, for various reasons (too dangerous, too difficult, compared with expected benefit). And nothing is fixed anymore in release series that have reached end of life of course (so everything before GCC 10, currently). If you have no particular reason to want something older (or newer), use the latest released version? That is GCC 12.2 now. The main reason to use an older release series is if you already were using it :-) Segher
