Comment on Bootstrappable BuildsComments−transpute2y> Current versions of GCC are written in C++, which means that a C++ compiler is needed to build it from source. GCC 4.7 was the last version of the collection that could be built with a plain C compiler, a much simpler task.Which C++ compiler was used to build GCC 4.8?−jcranmer2yGCC 4.8 requires a C++98 compiler, which gcc 4.7 is.
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> Current versions of GCC are written in C++, which means that a C++ compiler is needed to build it from source. GCC 4.7 was the last version of the collection that could be built with a plain C compiler, a much simpler task.
Which C++ compiler was used to build GCC 4.8?
GCC 4.8 requires a C++98 compiler, which gcc 4.7 is.