On Mon, 14 Jan 2013, Dave Johansen wrote: >>>>> +GCC plugin support is available in GCC version 4.5.0 and >>>>> +later. >> What's the value of documenting the availability of an unstable API in >> older versions >> of GCC? Mind this documentation is version specific. >> >> Richard. > My point wasn't to encourage people to use 4.5 for plugins, but just > to state when it became available. I was looking into > enabling/installing plugin support on RHEL 5/6 and spent several hours > trying to figure out why it wasn't available only to later find out > that it wasn't available in gcc 4.4.
I considered this again and again, and while I understand the unfortunate situation you ran into with the old system compiler on older versions of your OS, I am tempted to side with Richard -- and GCC plugins really make (more) sense with reasonably current versions of GCC, so by identifying GCC 4.5 we might set wrong expectations. Gerald
