[SailfishDevel] Updating gcc?

[Andrew Branson]

It's funny you should ask - we're actually hacking around there right 
now while getting aarch64 building. The choice is a tricky one though - 
the more you upgrade something like gcc, the more potential problems can 
be caused in every single package containing C or C++ source.

Thanks for the suggestion though, I'll have a play with newer versions 
during this process to see the impact.

Cheers,

Andrew

On 04/11/16 22:08, Marcin Mielniczuk wrote:
> Current gcc in Mer is 4.8, which is 2 years old. Current releases (5.4,
> 6.1) have full support for C++14, 4.8's support for C++11 is only
> experimental.
>
> C++11 brought many important changes such as constexprs or simply really
> useful ones (auto types). It'd be great to have them in Mer.
>
> Are there any plans for updating gcc in Mer?
>