Re: [boost] [Fit] Announcing Fit's formal review (March 2nd)

Subject: Re: [boost] [Fit] Announcing Fit's formal review (March 2nd)
From: Edward Diener (eldiener_at_[hidden])
Date: 2016-02-08 16:37:44

On 2/8/2016 2:17 PM, Paul Fultz II wrote:
>
> On Monday, February 8, 2016 at 12:57:37 PM UTC-6, Peter Dimov wrote:
>>
>>> Fit has been tested on gcc 4.6-4.9, clang 3.4-3.7, and Visual Studio
>> 2015.
>>
>> http://pfultz2.github.io/Fit/doc/html/requirements/index.html says
>>
>>      "Gcc 5.1 is not supported at all."
>>
>> Why is that?
>>
>
> There were too many regressions. Even disabling the constexpr tests, there
> was
> still problems. And the workarounds eventually lead to avoiding usage
> patterns
> that are perfectly valid in the library. The only reasonable solution was to
> drop support for gcc 5.1.
>
> I do believe it will work on gcc 5.2, but I haven't found a way to add it to
> the CI yet, so its not tested on a regular basis.

Gcc 5.3 has also ben released.