I work on a runtime system for an application domain that is very performance sensitive. We go to a lot of effort to maintain backward compatibility with older compiler versions, including avoiding more recently-implemented language constructs, and synthesizing them for the older versions. However, I'm concerned that this effort does a ...
I work on a project that's distributed for free in both source and binary form, since many of our users need to compile it specifically for their system. The necessitates a degree of consideration in maintaining backwards compatibility with older host systems, and primarily their compilers. Some of the cruftiest of these, such as GCC 3....
I develop C++ applications on CentOS 5.4 and we came across several inconvenient situations with gcc 4.1.2 like inability to debug local variables in class constructor which is a confirmed gcc bug (same problem with scoped variables). I'm considering to upgrade to higher gcc version. What version should I choose for production environmen...