GCC >= 5? (was: [patch] Removal of strfwd.h)

[Pavel Sanda]

On Fri, Oct 04, 2024 at 12:28:08AM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
> Le 03/10/2024 ?? 23:33, Pavel Sanda a écrit :
> > But I don't like it there as all trivstring stuff should imho go into trivstring.h.
> > Before I was afraid what will break, but as I broke cygwin anyway, maybe it's time
> > to get rid of this from docstring?
> 
> If we decide that we want at least gcc5,

It was released 2015. We won't release 2.5 sooner than 2026 so I think we are
out of distros 10y LTS range and can safely declare gcc5 dependency.

> we can get rid of trivstring
> altogether. As far as I remember, cygwin uses modern strings but pretends
> that it does not. I am not sure that I saw a justification for it.

I am all for ditching trivstring, but it all depends on Enrico's stance, I didn't
folow the previous discussion on strings and COW, so I have little idea
what is the right course of action.

Pavel