Bumping minimum GCC from 5.x to 6.x?

Mon Aug 30 13:17:10 UTC 2021

Hi all,

There is an open request[1] to bump the minimum GCC version from 5 to 6. 
We've traditionally been very conservative with supporting old GCC 
versions, but GCC 6 was released in 2016 (compared to GCC 5 in 2015), 
and I think this sounds conservative enough.

Would it create a lot of problems for anyone if we raised the minimum 
version?

/Magnus

[1] https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8256977