Recommended GCC version?

[David Holmes - Sun Microsystems]

Andrew,

Andrew Haley said the following on 06/20/08 20:55:
> The changes we had to make to build OpenJDK with gcc 4.3 were to fix
> nonstandard C++ code and to turn off -Werror because gcc 4.3 is much
> more fulsome in its warnings.  Rather than insist on using an older
> compiler, we would probably be better off fixing the code that
> generates the warnings.

It isn't compilation that is the issue (we should certainly fix the 
OpenJDK code to compile cleanly on a standards-compliant compiler) but 
the actual runtime behaviour of the compiled code. WE don't "recommend" 
the old compiler because it allows old sloppy code to get through, but 
because we've already uncovered the bugs that affect us at runtime, 
through literally years of use and testing.

David Holmes