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Re:GCC 14.1 Release by jcranmer on Tuesday May 07, 2024 @10:11AM (#40285670)
Looking at those flags, several of them are erroring about things that have been deprecated since before I was born. If you're going to complain that it's breaking old code, I have to ask why this code is simultaneously important enough to you to use a modern compiler with modern flags to build it and not important enough to bother changing for 30 years.
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Re:GCC 14.1 Release by hulitu on Tuesday May 07, 2024 @04:04PM (#40290849)
> things that have been deprecated since before I was born.

You must be very young.

Breaking compilation is not a sign of maturity. See Rust for details.

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Re:GCC 14.1 Release by gizmo686 on Tuesday May 07, 2024 @04:16PM (#40290960)
Rust is 9 years old. By programming language standards, it is the new kid around the block.

C is over 50 years old.

Python is 30.

Haskell 35

Java 30

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Re:GCC 14.1 Release by mid-kid on Tuesday May 07, 2024 @05:16PM (#40291590)
Plenty of software broke as a result of these flags, gentoo has a tracker here: https://bugs.gentoo.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=870412&hid...

As per my own experiences so far, we maintain an older version of GCC for matching GBA decompilation projects, which exhibits compilation errors now.

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