From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] trunk r114447: Some minor cleanups of recently-added bool vector code. Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 17:09:52 +0300 Message-ID: <834n9aia4v.fsf@gnu.org> References: <5241796B.1010902@dancol.org> <52417C11.7010808@yandex.ru> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1380031796 18969 80.91.229.3 (24 Sep 2013 14:09:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 14:09:56 +0000 (UTC) Cc: dancol@dancol.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, eggert@cs.ucla.edu To: Dmitry Antipov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 24 16:09:59 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VOTJM-0001mo-8n for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 Sep 2013 16:09:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46256 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VOTJL-0008P8-Q6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 Sep 2013 10:09:55 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33510) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VOTJD-0008OG-6S for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Sep 2013 10:09:53 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VOTJ7-00075O-1h for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Sep 2013 10:09:47 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout23.012.net.il ([80.179.55.175]:36313) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VOTJ6-00075E-Qe for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Sep 2013 10:09:40 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout23.012.net.il by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MTM00M00V7QOJ00@a-mtaout23.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Sep 2013 17:09:39 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MTM00M1UVC2LP60@a-mtaout23.012.net.il>; Tue, 24 Sep 2013 17:09:39 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <52417C11.7010808@yandex.ru> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.175 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:163605 Archived-At: > Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 15:48:33 +0400 > From: Dmitry Antipov > > There is a more general question: what is the oldest compiler which can > be used to build Emacs? Why should there be? Where are the real problems that would justify rejecting old compilers? FWIW, I'm still using 2004 vintage GCC 3.4.x on one of my machines, its speed blows GCC 4.x right out of the water every day.