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Re: Minimal recommended version of gcc/libgccjit for native-comp


From: Andrea Corallo
Subject: Re: Minimal recommended version of gcc/libgccjit for native-comp
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2021 16:12:30 +0000
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux)

wilde@sha-bang.de writes:

> Hello Andrea,
>
> As there are many distribution and systems out there supported by GNU
> Emacs which provide wide variety of gcc versions I wonder which versions
> are considered sufficient for the new native compilation feature.
>
> So far I have successfully tested the feature with gcc/gcclibjit 10 and
> 8 but I also have some systems where gcc is still at version 6.  Even
> though libgccjit is available as a package (we are talking Debian
> Stretch here) I'm a little bit reluctant enabling nativ comp on the
> build.
>
> Any insights/assessments on this issue would be highly welcome...  :)
>
> cheers
> sascha

Hi Sascha,

AFAIR we don't depend on any specific entry point that was added in
recent times into libgccjit, so in theory I *think* 6 should work.  That
said old libgccjit (read < 8) AFAIK have not been tested much if any
with Emacs.  You can maybe have a go an report :)

Thanks

  Andrea



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