From: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>
To: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
Cc: Gregory Heytings <gregory@heytings.org>,
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: master 37889523278: Add new `swap` macro and use it
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2024 18:35:30 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADwFkmmkPVEaSCjQ-Kv0=LrQNNJnQUQUQ57WBm_rOhH30WECHg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bk96jkdz.fsf@yahoo.com>
Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com> writes:
>> - What's stopping users from installing Sun C 5.9?
>
> Patches are only provided for installed software to be _updated_. Sun
> Sun C 5.9 is not an update to 5.8 but a completely new compiler, with a
> suitably new package name, separate support and update arrangements, and
> the like.
[...]
> Sun C 5.9 is incompatible with 5.8, and users may choose to run either
> compiler (as well as later releases) on Solaris 10 systems, until 2027.
Thanks. The question was if they can install and use Sun C 5.9, and the
answer seems to be "yes".
>> - Finally, why can't we ask these users to run GCC? We also don't
>> support MSVC, for example, so adding another unportable compiler to
>> the list doesn't sound like a disaster (especially since they can just
>> upgrade to the next version).
>
> AFAIU MSVC is not an ISO C99 compiler, so it's natural that we don't
> support it. The MSVC build also required its own build system and
> Makefiles (see nt/configure.bat, cf. config.bat), which were already
> nonfunctional by the time support was formally discontinued.
You didn't answer the question, but I did some research myself, and it
seems like you can indeed build GCC 4.9 on Solaris 10.
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[not found] ` <20240106072311.28B8FC0034E@vcs2.savannah.gnu.org>
2024-01-06 7:39 ` master 37889523278: Add new `swap` macro and use it Po Lu
2024-01-06 8:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-01-06 8:45 ` Po Lu
2024-01-06 9:18 ` Stefan Kangas
2024-01-06 10:33 ` Po Lu
2024-01-06 11:30 ` Stefan Kangas
2024-01-06 13:13 ` Po Lu
2024-01-06 13:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-01-06 14:41 ` Po Lu
2024-01-06 15:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-01-07 1:39 ` Po Lu
2024-01-07 6:34 ` Stefan Kangas
2024-01-07 7:50 ` Po Lu
2024-01-07 8:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-01-07 9:45 ` Stefan Kangas
2024-01-07 10:36 ` Po Lu
2024-01-07 11:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-01-07 11:53 ` Po Lu
2024-01-07 14:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-01-07 17:32 ` Stefan Kangas
2024-01-08 2:15 ` Po Lu
2024-01-07 7:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-01-12 0:50 ` Gregory Heytings
2024-01-13 10:16 ` Stefan Kangas
2024-01-14 3:03 ` Richard Stallman
2024-01-14 5:14 ` Po Lu
2024-01-14 7:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-01-14 8:05 ` Po Lu
2024-01-14 9:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-01-15 1:32 ` Gregory Heytings
2024-01-15 12:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-01-15 13:56 ` Po Lu
2024-01-15 14:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-01-18 1:01 ` Gregory Heytings
2024-01-18 2:11 ` Po Lu
2024-01-27 1:26 ` Gregory Heytings
2024-01-27 2:58 ` Po Lu
2024-01-27 23:44 ` Stefan Kangas
2024-01-28 1:51 ` Po Lu
2024-01-28 2:35 ` Stefan Kangas [this message]
2024-01-28 4:17 ` Po Lu
2024-01-28 6:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-01-28 2:22 ` Gregory Heytings
2024-01-28 4:03 ` Po Lu
2024-01-30 2:00 ` Gregory Heytings
2024-01-30 2:41 ` Po Lu
2024-01-28 6:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-01-30 1:59 ` Gregory Heytings
2024-01-30 12:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-01-18 6:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-01-27 1:25 ` Gregory Heytings
2024-01-27 3:08 ` Po Lu
2024-01-27 7:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-01-17 3:29 ` Richard Stallman
2024-01-17 10:16 ` Stefan Kangas
2024-01-17 11:15 ` Po Lu
2024-01-17 21:15 ` Stefan Kangas
2024-01-18 0:39 ` Po Lu
2024-01-18 19:17 ` Stefan Kangas
2024-01-19 1:10 ` Po Lu
2024-01-20 20:31 ` Stefan Kangas
2024-01-22 3:35 ` Richard Stallman
2024-01-22 4:48 ` Po Lu
2024-01-22 18:21 ` Dmitry Gutov
2024-01-23 0:50 ` Po Lu
2024-01-25 23:38 ` Stefan Kangas
2024-01-26 2:02 ` Po Lu
2024-01-26 7:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-01-26 7:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-01-19 3:32 ` Richard Stallman
2024-01-19 4:12 ` Po Lu
2024-01-27 1:27 ` Gregory Heytings
2024-01-27 23:56 ` Stefan Kangas
2024-01-28 2:23 ` Gregory Heytings
2024-01-13 8:02 ` Stefan Kangas
2024-01-13 9:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-01-13 9:50 ` Mattias Engdegård
2024-01-06 8:50 ` Stefan Kangas
2024-01-06 9:09 ` Po Lu
2024-01-06 9:52 ` Andreas Schwab
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