On 05/10/2007, Beman Dawes <bdawes@acm.org> wrote:
Rene Rivera wrote:
Beman Dawes wrote:
My candidates for the release criteria compilers are:
* Microsoft VC++ 8.0 on Win32 * Intel 10.0 on Win32 * GCC on Linux * GCC on Darwin
For Darwin we need to distinguish which variant of the compiler, GNU or Apple.
Apple. Latest Xcode release.
I think we only regularly test the Apple variant so the GNU
variant would not be a release toolset. There's also the difference between x86 and PPC.
I've got one of the original PPC mac minis. Sloooow. But it is nice to have a little-endian machine to test on.
For GCC on Linux, we need to be specific as to which versions. My incremental tests run only the latest 4.1 and 4.2 on x86 which have traditionally been release toolsets.
4.2.1 is the latest release, so that should definitely be a target.
GCC is important enough I'm willing to include 4.1. Likewise VC++ is so widely used I'm willing to target both 8.0 and 7.1.
Maybe one more? Sun?
Instead why not have at least one compiler for a platform i.e. VC++ 8.0 SP1 on Windows, gcc 4.2.1 on Linux, Sun Studio 12 on Solaris 8, xlC 9.0 on AIX and aCC on HP-UX. Additional compiler/platform combination can be taken up later.
--Beman
-- regards, Prashant Thakre